UNITED STATES v. NEZ PERCE COUNTY, IDAHO

Nos. 1265, 1274, 1275.

16 F.Supp. 267 (1936)

UNITED STATES v. NEZ PERCE COUNTY, IDAHO, et al. (two cases). SAME v. LEWIS COUNTY, IDAHO, et al.

District Court, D. Idaho, Central Division.

August 29, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Carver, U. S. Dist. Atty., and E. H. Casterlin and Frank Griffin, Asst. U. S. Dist. Attys., all of Boise, Idaho, for the United States.

Ray E. Durham, of Lewiston, Idaho, for defendant Nez Perce County, Idaho.

Edward C. Butler, of Lewiston, Idaho, for defendants Rural High School Dist. No. 1, Village of Lapwai, and Lapwai Valley Highway Dist.

Thomas A. Madden, of Nezperce, Idaho, for defendant Lewis County, Idaho.


CAVANAH, District Judge.

As these three cases were tried at the same time, although presenting different rights and questions, yet they can be considered and disposed of separately in one opinion.

The cases were brought by the United States against Nez Perce county and others to recover taxes paid by Indian wards of the government and to cancel taxes levied but not paid and to quiet title to the lands of two of...

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