DUNCAN TOWNSITE CO. v. LANE

No. 51.

245 U.S. 308 (1917)

DUNCAN TOWNSITE COMPANY v. LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 10, 1917.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles H. Merillat, with whom Mr. Charles T. Kappler was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Kearful for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to compel the Secretary of the Interior to restore the name of Nicholas Alberson, deceased, to the rolls under the Choctaw-Chickasaw Agreement of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 641), and to execute and record a patent for land described in an allotment certificate issued in his name by the Dawes Commission.

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