SEUFERT BROS. CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 187, 188.

249 U.S. 194 (1919)

SEUFERT BROTHERS COMPANY v. UNITED STATES, AS TRUSTEE AND GUARDIAN OF THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES AND BANDS OF THE YAKIMA INDIANS AND NATIONS, ET AL. UNITED STATES, AS TRUSTEE AND GUARDIAN OF THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES AND BANDS OF THE YAKIMA INDIANS AND NATIONS, ET AL. v. SEUFERT BROTHERS COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.S. Wilson, with whom Mr. A.S. Bennett was on the briefs, for Seufert Brothers Co.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Brown, with whom Mr. Leonard Zeisler was on the brief, for the United States, as trustee, etc., et al.


MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

As trustee and guardian of the Yakima Indians, the Government of the United States instituted this suit in the Federal District Court for the District of Oregon to restrain defendant, a corporation, its officers, agents and employees, from interfering with the fishing rights in a described locality on the south side and bank of the Columbia River, which it was alleged...

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