UNITED STATES v. WRIGHT

No. 3176.

53 F.2d 300 (1931)

UNITED STATES v. WRIGHT et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

October 12, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Harkins, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Chas. A. Jonas, U. S. Atty., of Lincolnton, N. C., on the brief), for the United States.

Felix E. Alley, of Waynesville, N. C. (Edwards & Leatherwood, of Bryson City, N. C., and Alley & Alley, of Waynesville, N. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, NORTHCOTT, and SOPER, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying an injunction in a suit brought to restrain the sale for state and county taxes of land of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians conveyed to the United States in trust pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1924, 43 Stat. 376 (25 USCA § 331 note). The question involved is the constitutionality of the provision of that act which exempts from taxation by the state the land conveyed until same...

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