UNITED STATES v. CHEROKEE NATION

Nos. 346, 347, 348.

202 U.S. 101 (1906)

UNITED STATES v. CHEROKEE NATION. EASTERN CHEROKEES v. CHEROKEE NATION AND UNITED STATES. CHEROKEE NATION v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 30, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis A. Pradt, Assistant Attorney General, for the United States.

Mr. Frederic D. McKenney and Mr. Charles Nagel, with whom Mr. Edgar Smith was on the brief, for the Cherokee Nation.

Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood for the Eastern and Emigrant Cherokees.

Mr. Robert L. Owen and Mr. William H. Robeson, with whom Mr. Robert V. Belt, Mr. James K. Jones, Mr. Mathew C. Butler and Mr. John Vaile were on the brief, for the Eastern Cherokees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

Of the four items of the amounts allowed, only one, that for $1,111,284.70, need be considered here.

1. The correctness of the account is conceded, and the question is whether the United States were properly held liable therefor. The Court of Claims ruled that the account rendered by Slade and Bender under the agreement between the United States and the Cherokee...

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