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UNITED STATES v. ROWELL

No. 63.

243 U.S. 464 (1917)

37 S.Ct. 425

61 L.Ed. 848

UNITED STATES v. ROWELL ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 9, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Warren, with whom Mr. S.W. Williams was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Henry E. Asp, with whom Mr. Henry G. Snyder, Mr. Frederick B. Owen and Mr. Walter A. Lybrand were on the briefs, for defendants in error.

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

This is an action in ejectment brought by the United States against James F. Rowell and two others. The land in controversy is a quarter-section — one hundred sixty acres — in an Indian school reserve in Comanche County, Oklahoma.

Three statutes, all enacted in the same year, must be noticed. The first of these is a provision in the Act of April 4, 1910, c. 140, 36 Stat. 269, 280, authorizing...

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