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DEERE v. ST. LAWRENCE RIVER POWER CO.

No. 305.

32 F.2d 550 (1929)

DEERE v. ST. LAWRENCE RIVER POWER CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

May 6, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wise, Whitney & Parker, of New York City (Jennings C. Wise, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Hamilton Ward, Atty. Gen., and Henry S. Manley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee the State of New York.

H. C. Hale, of Canton, N. Y. (Charles E. Hughes, Charles E. Hughes, Jr., and John Fletcher Caskey, all of New York City, of counsel), for other appellees.

Before MANTON, L. HAND, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a decree dismissing the bill in a suit for ejectment to secure possession of a tract of land one mile square, in St. Lawrence county, New York. It was dismissed below on motion for want of jurisdiction.

Appellant sues as a member of the St. Regis Tribe of Indians, on his own behalf and of other members of the tribe. The bill alleges that the tribe was out of possession for over 100 years. We may take notice that the...

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