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UNITED STATES V. WALLER, 243 U. S. 452 (1917)
243 U. S. 452U.S. Supreme Court
United States v. Waller, 243 U.S. 452 (1917)
United States v. Waller
No. 697
Argued March 14, 15, 1917
Decided April 9, 1917
243 U.S. 452
Syllabus
By force of the Clapp Amendment of 1906-1907, chaps. 3504, 2285, 34 Stat. 353, 1034, lands in the White Earth Reservation allotted and patented in trust to an adult mixed-blood Indian belong to him with all the rights and incidents of full ownership by persons of full capacity, including the right of alienation, and when he conveys them, the United States cannot maintain for his benefit a suit to annul the deed upon the ground that it was procured by fraud.
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