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BUNCH v. COLE

No. 33.

263 U.S. 250 (1923)

44 S.Ct. 101

68 L.Ed. 290

BUNCH v. COLE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Dennis T. Flynn, Mr. Robert M. Rainey and Mr. Streeter B. Flynn, for plaintiff in error and petitioner. Mr. William Neff and Mr. Lewis E. Neff were also on the briefs.

Mr. Benjamin Martin, Jr., for defendants in error and respondents.

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

This was an action by an Indian allottee to recover for a wrongful occupancy and use of his land.

The plaintiff was an adult Cherokee Indian of the full blood, enrolled and recognized as a member of the tribe and still a ward of the United States. The land was an eighty-acre tract which had been allotted to him in the division of the tribal lands, — forty acres as a homestead and the remainder...

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