The decision of the court below is reversed on the ground that under the Indian depredation act a tribe of Indians not originally named in the petition can not be brought into the action by amended petition after the expiration of the jurisdictional period for bringing such actions in the Court of Claims.
Mr. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, December 5, 1904.
Mr. Justice White read a dissenting opinion, in which Mr. Justice McKenna concurred.