Hockett v. Alston
Court Of Appeals Of Indian Territory
Appeal from the United States court for the Northern district. William M. Springer, Judge. Ejectment by Sarah C. Alston against Fred Hockett and others. Judgment in favor of plaintiff. Defendants appeal.
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Appeal from the United States court for the Northern district. William M. Springer, Judge. Ejectment by Sarah C. Alston against Fred Hockett and others. Judgment in favor of plaintiff. Defendants appeal. This is an action of ejectment commenced on the 19th day of February, 1898. The plaintiff alleges that she is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation or Tribe of Indians, and that she is the owner and entitled to the possession of the improvements in controversy; that the land upon which the improvement is situated is the property of the Cherokee Nation; “that on the 30th day of August, 1897, said…
1Opinion of the CourtTownsend, J.
Counsel for appellants 'in his brief adopts as his assignments of error the grounds set up in appellants’ motion for new trial in the court below, — 12 in number, — which are in substance as follows: (1) Because the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence. (2) Because of the refusal of the court below to permit Agnes GHockett to testify that she had prior to the year 1889 been admitted to citizenship in the Cherokee Nation, and in holding that the action of the Dawes commission, subsequently affirmed by the United States court for the Northern district of the Indian Territory, was…
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