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UNITED STATES EX REL. KENNEDY v. TYLER

No. 125.

269 U.S. 13 (1925)

46 S.Ct. 1

70 L.Ed. 138

UNITED STATES, EX REL. KENNEDY ET AL. v. TYLER, SHERIFF, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 12, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George P. Decker, for appellants, Kennedy and Pierce.

Mr. Edward G. Griffin, Deputy Attorney General of New York, with whom Mr. Albert Ottinger, Attorney General of New York, was on the brief, for Tyler, Sheriff.

Mr. W.W. Dyar, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Beck and Assistant Attorney General Wells, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Edward G. Griffin, with whom Mr. Thomas H. Larkin and Alice Estella Spring, pro se, were on the brief, for appellee Alice Estella Spring.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

Nathaniel C. Patterson, a duly enrolled Seneca Indian residing on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in the State of New York, died testate leaving a widow (a white woman), a daughter and three sons. The widow was named in the will as sole executrix. The will was regularly admitted to probate by the surrogate of Erie County, New York, and letters of administration granted. The widow thereupon presented her...

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