UNITED STATES v. McGOWAN

No. 6858.

62 F.2d 955 (1933)

UNITED STATES, as Trustee, etc., and ex rel. CHARLEY et al. v. McGOWAN et al. SAME v. BAKERS BAY FISH CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 16, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Savage, U. S. Atty., and Tom De Wolfe and Hamlet P. Dodd, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Seattle, Wash., and W. H. Smiley, of Hoquiam, Wash., for the United States.

Kelly & MacMahan, of Tacoma, Wash., for appellee Bakers Bay Fish Co.

John H. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., and E. W. Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee State of Washington.

Before WILBUR and SAWTELLE, Circuit Judges, and CAVANAH, District Judge.


WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

Two actions were brought by the United States, as trustee and guardian of the Quinaielt and Quillehute Indians and particularly the three Indians named in the bill, George Charley, Mitchell Charley, and Roland Charley, to enforce the rights of these two tribes of Indians in certain fishing grounds at the mouth of the Columbia river.

The decision of the trial court was adverse to the contention of the government. It is conceded on appeal...

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