UNITED STATES v. LADLEY

No. 1147.

51 F.2d 756 (1931)

UNITED STATES v. LADLEY (STATE OF IDAHO, Intervener).

District Court, D. Idaho, S. D.

August 13, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. E. Ray, U. S. Dist. Atty., and W. H. Langroise, Asst. U. S. Dist. Atty., both of Boise, Idaho.

R. I. Keator, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, for defendant.

Fred J. Babcock, Atty. Gen., of Idaho, and Maurice H. Greene, Asst. Atty. Gen., for intervener.


CAVANAH, District Judge.

The United States brings this action, as trustee for certain Indian allottees of the Kootenia Indian Tribe, against the defendant to quiet title to property formerly the bed of Mission Lake in Boundary county, Idaho, upon the theory that the lake at the time of statehood was nonnavigable and therefore belonged to the riparian lands of the Indians, while on the other hand the contention of the defendant is that the lake was navigable and that...

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