STOOKEY v. WILBUR

No. 5484.

58 F.2d 522 (1932)

STOOKEY et al. v. WILBUR, Secretary of the Interior.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided April 4, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. R. Serven and Guy Patten, both of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

O. H. Graves and Victor H. Wallace, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.


VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing plaintiffs' petition praying a writ of mandamus to require the Secretary of the Interior to restore plaintiffs' names to the Gros Ventre tribal rolls of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana.

It appears that the eight first-named plaintiffs are the children of a lawful marriage contracted in 1890 or 1891 between Emma Solomon, a...

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