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HECKMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 496.

224 U.S. 413 (1912)

HECKMAN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 1, 1912.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph C. Stone, Mr. Robert J. Boone and Mr. S.T. Bledsoe for appellants:1

The Solicitor General and Mr. A.N. Frost and Mr. Harlow A. Leekley, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HUGHES, after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The conveyances, which this suit was brought to cancel, were executed by members of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, of the full-blood, of lands allotted to them in severalty. The statute under which the allotments were made (act of July 1, 1902, c. 1375, 32 Stat. 716), accepted by the Cherokee nation on August 7, 1902, provided that the...

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