United States v. Hellard, 322 U.S. 363 (1944)

United States v. Hellard


No. 648


Argued April 28, 1944
Decided May 15, 1944
322 U.S. 363

CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

Syllabus

Full-blood Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes may not be divested of title to restricted land by a sale pursuant to a judgment of a state court in a partition proceeding to which the United States was not a party. Construing Act of June 14, 1918; Act of April 12, 1926. P. 368.

138 F.2d 985 reversed.

Certiorari, 321 U.S. 758, to review the affirmance of a judgment which in a suit removed from a state court to the federal court and in which the United States intervened, quieted title to lands in the respondent here.