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CHASE, JR. v. UNITED STATES

No. 242.

256 U.S. 1 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 417

65 L.Ed. 801

CHASE, JR., A MINOR, ETC. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Lee Webster, with whom Mr. Hiram Chase was on the briefs, for appellant:

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Garnett, with whom Mr. H.L. Underwood, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Oscar C. Anderson, with whom Mr. Charles J. Kappler was on the brief, for the Omaha Tribe of Indians, by special leave of court.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

Suit to adjudge Hiram Chase, Jr., a member of the Omaha Tribe of Indians and to have a right to select eighty acres for an allotment out of the lands of the Omaha Reservation, the selection having been denied by the Secretary of the Interior.

The right of selection depends upon the effect of certain treaties between the Omaha Tribe and the United States and certain acts of Congress.

The treaties...

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