STEPHENS
v.
CHEROKEE NATION.
CHOCTAW NATION
v.
ROBINSON.
JOHNSON
v.
CREEK NATION.
CHICKASAW NATION
v.
ROBINSON.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and submitted February 23, 24, 27, 1899.
Decided May 15, 1899.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Cherokee Nation cases. (Some argued, some submitted.)
Mr. S.M. Porter for appellants argued Nos. 445, 446 February 24. Mr. Heber J. May for appellants argued other Cherokee cases February 27. Mr. A.H. Garland, Mr. R.C. Garland and Mr. M.M. Edmiston were on Mr. May's brief.
Mr. William T. Hutchins and Mr. Wilkinson Call argued for the Cherokee Nation February 27.
Mr. Joseph M. Hill and Mr. James Brizzolara filed a brief for appellants in No. 436.
Mr. William M. Cravens filed a brief for appellants in No. 459.
Chickasaw Nation cases. (All submitted.)
Mr. Halbert E. Paine and Mr. Holmes Conrad for appellants, submitted February 23. Mr. Joseph G. Ralls also for appellants.
Mr. C.C. Potter submitted for appellees February 23. The following submissions were made subsequently. Mr. Silas Hare and Mr. Charles A. Keigwin for appellants in No. 527. Mr. Thomas Norman and Mr. William I. Cruce for appellees in No. 472. Mr. C.C. Potter for appellee in Nos. 473 and 477. Mr. Robert H. West and Mr. James L. Norris for appellee in No. 474. Mr. Henry M. Furman, Mr. Calvin L. Herbert, Mr. William I. Cruce, Mr. Andrew C. Cruce and Mr. James C. Thompson for appellees in Nos. 469 and others. Mr. J.W. Johnson and Mr. Dorset Carter for appellees in No. 513. Mr. W.A. Ledbetter and Mr. S.T. Bledroe for appellees in No. 520.
Choctaw Nation cases. (Some argued, some submitted.)
Mr. J.M. Wilson for the Nation argued March 6, 7. Mr. C.L. Herbert for appellees in Nos. 586, 588 and 589, argued March 7. Mr. Yancey Lewis, Mr. W.W. Dudley and Mr. L.T. Michener for claimants in No. 438; Mr. Yancey Lewis for claimants in Nos. 447, 452, and 454; Mr. William Ritchie for claimants in No. 453; Mr. M.M. Lindly, Mr. Jacob C. Hodges, Mr. P.D. Brewer and Mr. J.A. Hale for claimants in No. 578; Mr. Yancey Lewis and Mr. J.G. Ralls for claimants in No. 644; Mr. Walter A. Logan and Mr. William T. Hutchins for claimants in No. 648; and Mr. W.W. Dudley, Mr. L.T. Michener and Mr. Eugene Easton for claimants in No. 450; and Mr. Joseph G. Ralls for appellants in Nos. 648, 647, 646, 645, 643 and 651 submitted on their respective briefs.
Creek or Muskogee Nation cases. (All submitted March 7.)
Mr. William M. Cravens for appellants in Nos. 454, 461.
Mr. Benjamin T. Du Val for the Muskogee Nation in Nos. 461 and 454.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
These appeals are from decrees of the United States court in the Indian Territory, sitting in first instance, rendered in cases pending therein involving the right of various individuals to citizenship in some one of the four tribes named; most of them came to that court by appeal from the action of the so-called Dawes Commission, though some were from decisions of tribal authorities...
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