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LANE v. MICKADIET

No. 449.

241 U.S. 201 (1916)

36 S.Ct. 599

60 L.Ed. 956

LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. MICKADIET AND TIEBAULT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 22, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Robert Szold was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Irving F. Baxter, with whom Mr. Norris Brown, Mr. Edward F. Colladay and Mr. Howard Saxton were on the brief, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Charles J. Kappler and Mr. Harry L. Keefe, by leave of the court, filed a brief as amici curiae.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The relators, who are defendants in error, invoked the aid of the trial court to control by mandamus the action of the Secretary of the Interior concerning an allotment in severalty of land made to an Indian in pursuance of the authority conferred by the act of February 8, 1887 (c. 119, 24 Stat. 388), entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations...

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