New York Court of Appeals December 21, 1906 (Jemison v. . Bell Telephone Co.)

Edwabd T. Babtlett, J.

The plaintiff had been for nineteen years, at the time of the trial, a chief of the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, and for forty years or more a resident, and exceeding twenty years a landowner, on the Tonawanda Indian reservation, in the town of Alabama, county of Genesee and state of New York.