UNITED STATES v. SANTA FE PAC. R. CO.

No. 9271.

114 F.2d 420 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. SANTA FE PAC. R. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

August 30, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman M. Littell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Norman MacDonald and Charles R. Denny, Attys., Dept. of Justice, both of Washington, D. C., Richard H. Hanna, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., of Albuquerque, N. M., and Harlow Akers, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., of Phoenix, Ariz., for appellant.

Charles H. Woods and Joyce Cox, both of Chicago, Ill., and Fennemore, Craig, Allen & Bledsoe, of Phoenix, Ariz., for appellee.

Before WILBUR, MATHEWS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by the United States in its own behalf and as guardian of the Walapai1 Tribe of Indians of Arizona to enjoin the defendant, Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company (hereinafter called the Santa Fe Railroad Company, or, the Railroad Company) from interfering with the alleged possessory rights of that tribe to certain lands in northwestern Arizona.

The lands to which these possessory rights...

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