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MENOMINEE TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 44300.

67 F.Supp. 972 (1946)

MENOMINEE TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

October 7, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Wilkinson, of Washington, D. C. (Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey, Richard E. Dwight and Andrew E. Stewart, all of New York City, and John W. Cragun, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Wilfred Hearn, of Washington, D. C., and General J. Edward Williams, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, JONES, and MADDEN, Judges.

WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff sues for interest to which it claims it is entitled under the Act of June 12, 1890, 26 Stat. 146, and the Act of March 28, 1908, 35 Stat. 51.

Under the first of these Acts the defendant undertook to employ individuals of the plaintiff tribe to cut the timber on plaintiff's lands, and it agreed to sell the logs so cut for plaintiff's account. One-fifth of the net proceeds it agreed to deposit in its Treasury, to be used for plaintiff...

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