GLACIER COUNTY, MONT. v. UNITED STATES

No. 8734.

99 F.2d 733 (1938)

GLACIER COUNTY, MONT., et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

October 15, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace W. Judson, of Cut Bank, Mont., and H. C. Hall and Edw. C. Alexander, both of Great Falls, Mont., for appellants.

Carl McFarland, Asst. Atty. Gen., C. W. Leaphart, of Missoula, Mont., and Oscar A. Provost, Robert M. Vaughan, and Thomas E. Harris, Attys., Dept of Justice, all of Washington, D. C., and John B. Tansil, U. S. Atty., and Donald J. Stocking, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Butte, Mont., for the United States.

Before WILBUR, HANEY, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


HEALY, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a decree quieting title of the United States to lands in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Glacier County, Montana, and giving judgment for the recovery with interest of taxes collected by the county from Indian allottees.

The cause was tried without a jury upon documentary evidence and an agreed statement of facts. Briefly, the record discloses that in the year 1918 patents covering the lands involved were issued...

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