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BALLINGER v. U.S. EX REL. FROST

No. 54.

216 U.S. 240 (1910)

BALLINGER, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. FROST.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 21, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Harr for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Charles H. Merillat, with whom Mr. Charles J. Kappler, Mr. H.C. Potter and Mr. E.A. Walker were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant in error, a citizen and resident of the Choctaw Nation in the Indian Territory, whose enrollment had been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and who was entitled to an allotment under the acts of Congress, on December 20, 1906, filed her petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for a mandamus compelling the Secretary of the Interior...

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