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GOAT v. UNITED STATES

No. 405.

224 U.S. 458 (1912)

32 S.Ct. 544

56 L.Ed. 841

GOAT v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 29, 1912.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.C. Stone, Mr. Robert J. Boone and Mr. S.T. Bledsoe, with whom Mr. Geo. C. Crump, Mr. H.H. Rogers, Mr. J.H. Maxey, Mr. J.H. Miley and Mr. B.B. Blakeney were 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.

The question presented by this appeal is with respect to the right of Seminole freedmen to convey the lands allotted to them in severalty pursuant to the act of July 1, 1898, c. 542, 30 Stat. 567. The United States sued to cancel conveyances alleged to have been made contrary to the statute. Demurrer to the bill was sustained by the Circuit Court, and its judgment was reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals....

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