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WARD v. LOVE COUNTY

No. 224.

253 U.S. 17 (1920)

WARD ET AL. v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LOVE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 25, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.E. Bennett and Mr. Geo. P. Glaze for petitioners. Estelle Balfour Bennett was on the brief.

Mr. T.B. Wilkins, Mr. Russell Brown, Mr. Geo. B. Rittenhouse, Mr. P.T. McVay, Mr. Clinton A. Galbraith and Mr. George Trice for respondent.

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

This is a proceeding by and on behalf of Coleman J. Ward and sixty-six other Indians to recover moneys alleged to have been coercively collected from them by Love County, Oklahoma, as taxes on their allotments, which under the laws and Constitution of the United States were nontaxable. The county commissioners disallowed the claim and the claimants appealed to the district court of the county. There the...

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