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UNITED STATES v. PAYNE

No. 240.

264 U.S. 446 (1924)

UNITED STATES v. PAYNE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 7, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.L. Underwood, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Arthur E. Griffin, with whom Mr. Arthur R. Griffin was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellee, an Indian of the Quileute tribe, brought suit in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington to determine his right to an allotment of an eighty-acre tract of land in the Quinaielt Indian Reservation in that State. Authority for bringing the suit is found in 28 Stat. 305, c. 290, as amended by 31 Stat. 760, c. 217. The treaty with the Quileute and other Indians, made in 1855...

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