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MULLEN v. UNITED STATES

No. 404.

224 U.S. 448 (1912)

32 S.Ct. 494

56 L.Ed. 834

MULLEN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 15, 1912.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.C. Stone, Mr. Robert J. Boone and Mr. S.T. Bledsoe, with whom Mr. J.R. Cottingham was on the brief, for appellants.1

The Solicitor General and Mr. A.N. Frost and Mr. Harlow A. Leekley, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, for the United States.1

MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought by the United States to cancel certain conveyances of allotted lands, made by Choctaw Indians in alleged violation of restrictions. The Circuit Court sustained a demurrer to the bill upon the grounds that the United States was not entitled to maintain a suit of this character; that there was a defect of parties, owing to the absence of the Indian grantors, and that the bill was multifarious...

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