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MAHNOMEN COUNTY v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 12340, 12376.

131 F.2d 936 (1942)

MAHNOMEN COUNTY v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. STATE OF MINNESOTA et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

December 7, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. A. Wilson, Co. Atty., of Mahnomen, Minn., and George B. Sjoselius, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. A. A. Burnquist, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for Mahnomen County and State of Minnesota and others.

Vernon L. Wilkinson, Atty., Department of Justice (Norman M. Littell, Asst. Atty. Gen., and C. U. Landrum, Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., of Detroit Lakes, Minn., on the brief), for United States of America.

Before GARDNER, WOODROUGH and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by the United States to carry out a trust obligation undertaken by it in respect to a tract of land which it allotted in severalty and conveyed by trust patent to Isabelle Garden, who is an adult female mixed-blood Chippewa Indian of the White Earth Reservation, in Mahnomen County, Minnesota. One of the obligations assumed by the United States under the terms of its trust was that it would turn over the land to the Indian...

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