BOARD OF COM'RS OF PAWNEE COUNTY, OKL. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 2719, 2726.

139 F.2d 248 (1943)

BOARD OF COM'RS OF PAWNEE COUNTY, OKL., et al. v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. BOARD OF COM'RS OF PAWNEE COUNTY, OKL., et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 26, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randell S. Cobb, of Oklahoma City, Okl. (L. N. Kimrey, of Pawnee, Okl., and Mac Q. Williamson and Horace Ballaine, both of Oklahoma City, Okl., on the brief), for appellants and cross-appellees.

Fred W. Smith, of Washington, D. C. (Norman M. Littell, of Washington, D. C., Whitfield Y. Mauzy, of Tulsa, Okl., and Vernon L. Wilkinson and Dwight D. Doty, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee and cross-appellant.

Before PHILLIPS, HUXMAN, and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.


MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

The ultimate question presented by this appeal is whether certain lands held by the United States in trust for certain full-blood Pawnee Indians were exempt from Oklahoma ad valorem taxes by force of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of June 26, 1936, 49 Stat. 1967, 25 U.S.C.A. § 501 et seq.

Colonel Moore, a full-blood restricted Pawnee Indian, was the owner of several tracts of restricted, but taxable, lands located in Pawnee County...

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