That Portion of the Cayuga Indians Residing in Canada v. State | |
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Court | New York Court of Appeals |
Full case name | That Portion of the Cayuga Indians Residing in Canada v. State |
Argued | April 20 1885 |
Decided | June 2 1885 |
Citation | 99 N.Y. (54 Sickels) 235, 1 N.E. 770 |
Holding | |
The Canadian Cayugas have no standing to sue under a treaty between New York state and the Cayuga nation | |
Court membership | |
Chief judge | William C. Ruger |
Associate judges | Charles Andrews, George F. Danforth, Robert Earl, Francis Miles Finch, Theodore Miller, and Charles A. Rapallo |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Danforth, joined by unanimous (Finch concurred only in the result) |
That Portion of the Cayuga Indians Residing in Canada v. State, 1 N.E. 770 (N.Y. 1885),[1] was an early litigation of aboriginal title in New York, with the Canadian Cayugas seeking to recovery compensation from a prior land cession.
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