UNITED STATES v. WORK

No. 4242.

6 F.2d 694 (1925)

UNITED STATES ex rel. BESAW v. WORK, Secretary of the Interior.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided June 1, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennison Wheelock, of Washington, D. C., and Eben R. Minahan, of Green Bay, Wis., for appellant.

C. E. Wright, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.


VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, dismissing appellant's petition for a writ of mandamus to require the Secretary of the Interior to pay to relator his per capita interest in certain funds belonging to and being distributed to the Menominee Indians in the state of Wisconsin.

Relator, Besaw, admitted to be a Menominee Indian of mixed blood, was born May 1, 1842, among the Menominee...

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