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ARENAS v. UNITED STATES

No. 463.

322 U.S. 419 (1944)

ARENAS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 22, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. John W. Preston and Oliver O. Clark argued the cause, and Mr. Preston was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Norman MacDonald, with whom Assistant Attorney General Littell was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner Arenas is a full-blood Mission Indian, regularly enrolled in the Agua Caliente or Palm Springs Band. He sued in the United States District Court to be awarded a trust patent to certain lands on the Palm Springs Reservation. The Government was granted a summary judgment of dismissal on affidavits and on the record of the St. Marie litigation on like claims by similarly situated Indians.

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