JOSEPH FELLOWS, SURVIVOR OF ROBERT KENDLE, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. SUSAN BLACKSMITH AND ELY S. PARKER, ADMINISTRATORS OF JOHN BLACKSMITH, DECEASED

Citation

60 U.S. 366 (1856)

Decision : 9-0

Majority Opinion: Samuel Nelson

Justices Participating

• Benjamin Curtis | voted with the majority or plurality

• John Campbell | voted with the majority or plurality

• John Catron | voted with the majority or plurality

• John McLean | voted with the majority or plurality

• James Wayne | voted with the majority or plurality

• Peter Daniel | voted with the majority or plurality

• Roger Taney | voted with the majority or plurality

• Robert Grier | voted with the majority or plurality

• Samuel Nelson | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

Categories

• Domestic Dependent Nations
• Land/allotment/grants of land
• Plenary Power
• Treaties
• Wardship/Trust

Cited Cases

• 51 U.S. 442 (1850), THE UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. JEHIEL BROOKS AND OTHERS, DEFENDANTS

Case Cited In

• 112 U.S. 94 (1884), ELK v. WILKINS
• 118 U.S. 375 (1885), UNITED STATES v. KAGAMA & ANOTHER, INDIANS
• 170 U.S. 1 (1897), NEW YORK INDIANS v. UNITED STATES
• 173 U.S. 464 (1898), UNITED STATES v. NEW YORK INDIANS
• 270 U.S. 181 (1925), UNITED STATES v. MINNESOTA
• 362 U.S. 99 (1959), FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION v. TUSCARORA INDIAN NATION
• 414 U.S. 661 (1973), ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK et al. v. COUNTY OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK, et al.
• 467 U.S. 138 (1983), THREE AFFILIATED TRIBES OF THE FORT BERTHOLD RESERVATION v. WOLD ENGINEERING, P. C., et al.
• 470 U.S. 226 (1984), COUNTY OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK, et al. v. ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF NEW YORK STATE et al.