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SHEPARD v. UNITED STATES

No. 57-C-51.

162 F.Supp. 313 (1958)

James and Calista SHEPARD, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Wisconsin.

June 11, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Nelson, Green Bay, Wis., for plaintiffs.

Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., and James P. Garland and Thomas J. McCoy, Jr., Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward G. Minor, U. S. Atty., and Francis L. McElligott, Asst. U. S. Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant.

GRUBB, District Judge.

Plaintiff James Shepard is a member of the Potawatomie Indian tribe of Kansas, born in 1902 on the Potawatomie Reservation in Kansas. On May 23, 1905, Shepard was allotted 80 acres of land in the Kansas Reservation by certificate of allotment under the General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887, 24 Stat. 389, 25 U.S.C.A. § 331 et seq. Pursuant to the General Allotment Act, 25 U.S.C.A. § 348, this certificate of allotment provided:<...

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