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Show .7I_.Ti.K3 V. T.IK UNITED STATES. APPEAL H.OM TIIK ClKl.UlT COURT OF APPKALK rOK Till-; nlllTH GIWUIT. Ho. 158. Argued October 24', 1907. uooided January 6, 1900. oOo the The rule that all/parties must Join in an appeal or writ of error unless properly dotachod from tho right so to do applies only to joint judgments and decrees. This court has jurisdiction of an appeal takon or writ of error sued out by one of tho several defendants if his interest is separate from that of the other defendants. In a suit against several defendants as trespassers in which some of them defaulted and others answered, hold, that each defendant was a separate trespasser and that while thoso who defaultod v/oro precluded from questioning the correctness of tho deoroo entorod against thorn, tho answoring defendants had nothing in common with tho othors and could maintain an appeal without thorn. In a conflict of Implications, tho instrument!! must bo construod according to the implication having the greater forco; and, in the interpretation of agreements and troatios with Indians, ambiguities should be resolved from the standpoint of the Indians. In view of all tho circumstances of tho transaction |