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MAHNOMEN COUNTY v. U.S.

No. 684.

319 U.S. 474 (1943)

63 S.Ct. 1254

87 L.Ed. 1527

COUNTY OF MAHNOMEN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. L.A. Wilson and Geo. B. Sjoselius, Assistant Attorney General of Minnesota, with whom Mr. J.A.A. Burnquist, Attorney General of Minnesota, was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Vernon L. Wilkinson, with whom Solicitor General Fahy and Assistant Attorney General Littell were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action was brought by the government in a federal district court to recover real estate taxes alleged to have been illegally collected by Mahnomen County, Minnesota, from Isabelle Garden, an Indian allottee.1 The suit, brought in 1940, seeks a refund of taxes for the years 1911 to 1927 inclusive. It is conceded that any limitation on the...

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