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UNITED STATES v. CHASE

No. 146.

245 U.S. 89 (1917)

38 S.Ct. 24

62 L.Ed. 168

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS TRUSTEE AND GUARDIAN OF THE OMAHA TRIBE OF INDIANS, ET AL., v. CHASE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 5, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General for the United States.

Mr. Hiram Chase, pro se, and Mr. Thomas L. Sloan, with whom Mr. William R. King, was on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. O.C. Anderson and Mr. Charles J. Kappler, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curice.

Mr. Harry L. Keefe, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curice.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action to recover for the wrongful use and occupancy of forty acres of land in Nebraska to which two Omaha Indians assert conflicting claims. The land is within the Omaha Indian Reservation, was assigned in 1871 under the treaty of March 6, 1865, 14 Stat. 667, to Clarissa Chase, a member of the Omaha tribe, and was allotted in 1899 under the Act of August 7, 1882, c. 434, 22 Stat. 341, to Reuben...

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