KENNEDY v. BECKER

No. 666.

241 U.S. 556 (1916)

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ON THE RELATION OF KENNEDY v. BECKER, AS SHERIFF OF ERIE COUNTY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 12, 1916.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George P. Decker for plaintiff in error and also Mr. Charles Warren, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, with whom Mr. W.W. Dyer was on the brief for the United States in support of the contentions of plaintiff in error.

Mr. Herbert B. Lee and Mr. Blaine F. Sturgis, with whom Mr. E.E. Woodbury, Attorney General of the State of New York, and Mr. A. Frank Jenks were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court after reading the following memorandum:

This opinion by direction of the court had been prepared by MR. JUSTICE HUGHES and was approved before his resignation. After that event it was again considered and was re-adopted.

Fayette Kennedy, Warren Kennedy, and Willis White, Jr., three Seneca Indians, residing on the Cattaraugus Reservation, under the charge of...

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