United States v. Reily
Opinion of the Court
The issue of law that we decided this day in United States v. Wallace Estill et al., 62 F.(2d) 620, is again presented in this case. In this ease, as in that one, the United States sues as trustee, named as such in the patent issued under the General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887, 24 Stat. 388. The eighty aereb therein described as situate in the Territory (now State) of Oklahoma was allotted to Wah-puek-we-che, a Kiekapoo Indian, who later went to the Republic of Mexico in 1903, took her son, Wah-pe-eom-e, of tender years with her, and resided there with other Kiekapoos under tribal customs. In 1927 or 1929 she returned to Oklahoma and died there. Her son was his mother’s only heir-. When he grew up, he returned to Oklahoma, where he remained. After his mother’s death he went to Mexico and brought away her household goods and personal belongings. He was an allottee of Oklahoma lands in his own right. In May, 1930, he sold forty acres of his mother’s allotment to appellee, Reily,
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