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CHEROKEE NATION v. WHITMIRE

No. 735.

223 U.S. 108 (1912)

CHEROKEE NATION AND UNITED STATES v. WHITMIRE, TRUSTEE FOR FREEDMEN OF THE CHEROKEE NATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 29, 1912.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William W. Hastings for appellant, the Cherokee Nation.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General John Q. Thompson and Mr. George M. Anderson, filed a brief for appellant, the United States.

Mr. Samuel A. Putman and Mr. Charles Poe, with whom Mr. Robert H. Kern was on the brief, for appellee.

Mr. Charles M. Rice, Mr. George S. Ramsey and Mr. C.C. Calhoun, Mr. Frank J. Boudinot, Mr. John J. Hemphill and Mr. Daniel B. Henderson, filed briefs as amici curiae.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is prosecuted to review a supplemental decree of the Court of Claims enjoining and directing the Secretary of the Interior to enroll upon the final roll of the citizens of the Cherokee Nation for allotment of lands the names of certain persons and their descendants claiming rights as Cherokee freedmen, whose names were found upon the roll called the Kern-Clifton roll, which the decree adjudged was...

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