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UNITED STATES v. POWERS

No. 102.

305 U.S. 527 (1939)

UNITED STATES v. POWERS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 9, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles W. Leaphart, with whom Solicitor General Jackson and Assistant Attorney General McFarland were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. T.H. Burke for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

By this proceeding (begun in 1934) the United States seek to prevent further taking of water from certain non-navigable streams within the Crow Indian Reservation. This water is essential to the cultivation of respondents' lands allotted more than twenty years ago to members of the tribe and presently held under properly acquired fee simple titles. The prayer of the bill is for a permanent injunction against...

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