BOARD OF COMM'RS v. SEBER

No. 556.

318 U.S. 705 (1943)

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ET AL. v. SEBER ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 19, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, and Houston E. Hill, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Mr. Norman J. Futor, Assistant Attorney General, was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. George H. Jennings, with whom Mr. Leonard O. Lytle was on the brief, for respondents.

By special leave of Court, Mr. Warner W. Gardner, with whom Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Littell, and Messrs. Norman MacDonald and Archibald Cox were on the brief, for the United States, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court.

This petition for certiorari presents the questions whether certain lands held by respondent Indians, subject to restrictions against alienation and encumbrance without the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, were exempt from Oklahoma real estate taxes for the year 1937 by virtue of the Act of June 20, 1936, 49 Stat. 1542;1 whether...

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