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WILLIAMS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 128.

242 U.S. 434 (1917)

37 S.Ct. 142

61 L.Ed. 414

WILLIAMS, CHIEF, ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 8, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.G. Grossberg, with whom Mr. W.W. DeArmond was on the briefs, for appellants.

Mr. Chester E. Cleveland, with whom Mr. Samuel A. Ettelson was on the brief, for the City of Chicago.

Mr. W.S. Horton, with whom Mr. Robert Redfield, Mr. W.D. McKenzie and Mr. Francis O'Shaughnessy were on the brief, for the Illinois Central Railroad Co. et al.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

The claim set up in this cause is without merit and the amended bill was properly dismissed, upon motion, for want of equity.

Complainants are eight Pottawatomie Indians, members of the Pokagon Band and residents of Michigan. They undertake to sue "on behalf of themselves and of all members of the Pokagon Band of Pottawatomie Indians, and of all other members of the Pottawatomie Nation of Indians,...

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