Case ID: us-ct-cl_15/html/0621-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Tbe Chief Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PERRYMAN’S CASE.
    (12 C. Cls. R., 704; 100 U. S. R., 235.)
    Sanford Perryman, appellee, v. The United States, appellants.
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    
      A friendly Indian brings his action for cattle stolen from Mm hy a white man in the Indian Territory. On the trial it appears that the fluff was hy a negro, whereas the statute giving relief to friendly Indians in such eases uses the term “1711116 person.”
    Tlie court below being equally divided upon tbe question, and tbe claimant having no right of appeal, judgment proforma for tho purposes of an, appeal is rendered in favor of the claimant. The defendants appeal.
    The judgment^™ forma of the court helo w is reversed, upon tho ground that the defendants are not liable for the theft of a negro, under the Act 30th June, 1834 (4 Stat. L., p. 731, § 16; Rev. Stat., $ 2154, 2155), the statute using the term “ white person.1’
    
   Tbe Chief Justice

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court, February 2, 1880.