DARKS v. ICKES

No. 6053.

69 F.2d 230 (1934)

DARKS v. ICKES, Secretary of the Interior.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided February 5, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. J. Van Court, of Eufaula, Okl., and Paul M. Niebell, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Nathan R. Margold, Charles Fahy, J. Kennard Cheadle, and Frederic L. Kirgis, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


PER CURIAM.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Interior to pay over certain funds in his possession, accumulated from oil leases on the restricted land of Thomas Long, a full-blood Creek Indian.

Long died in 1932, leaving a will in which his estate was devised to his wife and children, full-blood Indians of the Creek Tribe, one of the Five...

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