United States v. Anderson

GEIGER, District Judge.

The government has instituted this suit to annul a conveyance made by Mary Butler Tousey, formerly a member of the Stoekbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians, to the defendant, Anderson, of lands described in the complaint. The facts are simple and practically without dispute, though they involve consideration of the legislative and executive relations of the government with the named tribe. Preliminarily, and as an introduction to references to such relations, it suffices to say that Mary Butler Tousey’s mother was a while woman. Pier father was the issue of a marriage of…