U.S. v. OKLAHOMA GAS CO.

No. 171.

318 U.S. 206 (1943)

UNITED STATES v. OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 15, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Valentine Brookes argued the cause, and Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Littell, and Mr. Vernon L. Wilkinson were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Streeter B. Flynn, with whom Mr. R.M. Rainey was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The United States sued the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company in the United States District Court asking a declaratory judgment that the Company illegally occupies with its pole line certain Indian land, and a mandatory injunction to terminate such occupation. The case turns on whether permission to the State of Oklahoma to establish a highway over allotted Indian land given under § 4 of the Act of March...

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