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JOHN W. COLLIER, ADMINISTRATOR OF JAMES E. RANCK, DECEASED, v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [Not reported in C. Cls. R.;
    173 U. S. R., 79.]
    
      On the claimant’s Appeal.
    
    Tbe court below dismissed tbe claimant’s petition for want of jurisdiction, having found tbe Indian tribe charged with depredation not in amity with tbe Government at tbe time tbe depredation took place.
   Tbe decision of tbe court below is affirmed, tbe Supreme Court bolding a finding as to amity as an ultimate finding of fact which it will not review. Tbe Supreme Court further bolds that Congress has empowered tbe Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases to consider any paper on file in any of tbe Departments or in tbe courts having any bearing on a claim, and to allow it such weight as it may be entitled to.

Mr. Justice White delivered tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court February 20,1899.