WALTER H. SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Is a mortgage by Cherokee Indians, of less than one-sixteenth Indian blood, of their homestead, made within 21 years from the dates of their certificates of their allotments of such homesteads, to secure a debt of $10,000 contracted by them while they were the owners in possession of and still held such homesteads, lawful and enforceable against them by the mortgagee or his assigns? The court below answered this question in the affirmative...
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