Case: JOHNSON BLACKFEATHER, PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF INDIANS, v. THE UNITED STATES AND THE CHEROKEE NATION
Abbreviation: Blackfeather v. United States
Decision Date: 1894-11-19
Docket Number: 
Citation: 30 Ct. Cl. 482
Volume: 30
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: JOHNSON BLACKFEATHER, PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF INDIANS, v. THE UNITED STATES AND THE CHEROKEE NATION.
Judges: 
Pages: 482–483

Head Matter:
JOHNSON BLACKFEATHER, PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF INDIANS, v. THE UNITED STATES AND THE CHEROKEE NATION.
[Not reported in C. Cls. R.; 155 U. S. R., 218.]
On the defendants'1 Appeal.
This case was brought against the Cherokee Nation under the Act October 1, 1890 (26 Stat. L., p. 636), to recover the claimant’s proportionate part of certain funds which the nation distributed per capita among citizens who were Cherokees by blood, to the exclusion of those who were Cherokees by adoption.
The United States had no interest involved in the suit. The judgment in the court below was rendered without an opinion being delivered under the decision in the similar case of the Delawares v. The Cherokee Nation ($8 C. Cls. S,., £81).
The decision of the court below is affirmed.
Also held. that a party will not be heard in an appellate court to question the correctness of the decree of the court below without an appeal taken.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Brewer
delivered the opinion of the court, November 19, 1894.