BARNETT v. UNITED STATES

No. 7962.

82 F.2d 765 (1936)

BARNETT et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 23, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Hutchinson, of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Peirson M. Hall, U. S. Atty., and Howell Purdue, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Los Angeles, Cal.

Marion De Vries, of Washington, D. C. (Jesse P. Crawford and H. Kennedy McCook, both of Washington, D. C., of counsel), amici curiæ.

Before WILBUR, GARRECHT, and MATHEWS, Circuit Judges.


WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in equity in an action brought by the United States to recover from Anna Laura Barnett and the other defendants, who have not appealed, such portion of the sum of $550,000 as was given to her by the Secretary of the Interior from funds of an Indian derived from royalties from an oil lease on real estate allotted to the Indian in the state of Oklahoma.

The appellants filed eleven assignments of error. The...

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