CHEROKEE NATION v. HITCHCOCK

No. 340.

187 U.S. 294 (1902)

CHEROKEE NATION v. HITCHCOCK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 1, 1902.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William M. Springer for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Van Devanter for appellee. Mr. Assistant Attorney William C. Pollock was with him on the brief.


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

The grounds of demurrer to the bill of complaint were summarized in the following reasons embodied in a statement filed with the demurrer:

"1. The matters named in the bill are matters of administration, which cannot be taken away from an executive department and carried into the courts.

"2. That the Cherokee Oil ...

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