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HALBERT v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 141-154.

283 U.S. 753 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 615

75 L.Ed. 1389

HILARY HALBERT, JR., ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. RICH HALBERT v. SAME. VERNON SIDNEY HALBERT v. SAME. SIDNEY E. HALBERT v. SAME. PICKERNOLL ET AL. v. SAME. LULU M. ELLIOTT ET AL. v. SAME. PETIT ET AL. v. SAME. BARICHIO ET AL. v. SAME. EDNA MAY ELLIOTT ET AL. v. SAME. CHAS. G. ELLIOTT, JR., ET AL. v. SAME. RUBENS ET AL. v. SAME. WALKOWSKY ET AL. v. SAME. ROLFSON ET AL. v. SAME. PROVOE ET AL. v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Webster Ballinger argued the cases, and Messrs. Overton G. Ellis, Stuart H. Elliott, H.G. Rowland, and Dix H. Rowland filed a brief, for petitioners.

Assistant Attorney General Richardson, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. Pedro Capo-Rodriguez and Paul D. Miller were on the brief, for the United States.

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

These suits were brought in the District Court for the Western District of Washington to establish and enforce asserted rights to allotments, each of 80 acres, in the Quinaielt Indian Reservation in the southwestern part of that State. Authority for bringing the suits is found in the statute providing that any person who is "in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent" and claims to be entitled to an...

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