HEIRS OF GARLAND, DECEASED, v. CHOCTAW NATION

Citation

256 U.S. 439 (1920)

Decision : 6-0

Justices Participating

• Joseph McKenna | voted with majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• Oliver Holmes | voted with majority or plurality

• William Day | voted with majority or plurality

• Willis Van Devanter | voted with majority or plurality

• Mahlon Pitney | voted with majority or plurality

• James McReynolds | did not vote

• Louis Brandeis | voted with majority or plurality

• John Clarke | did not vote

Categories

• Contracts
• Depredations/Individual Claims Against Tribal Nations
• Sovereign immunity

Case Cited In

• 272 U.S. 728 (1926), HEIRS OF SAMUEL GARLAND, DECEASED, v. CHOCTAW NATION