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POTTAWATOMIE TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

Appeals Docket No. 5-52.

111 F.Supp. 256 (1953)

POTTAWATOMIE TRIBE OF INDIANS et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

April 7, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. R. McGuire, Washington, D. C., for appellants. Robert Stone, Topeka, Kan., was on the brief.

Sim T. Carman, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. James M. McInerney, for the appellees. Leon J. Moran and Donald E. Schwinn, Washington, D. C., were on the brief.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and HOWELL, Judges.

WHITAKER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission dismissing plaintiffs' petition. Although both the Pottawatomie Tribe of Indians and the Prairie Band of the Pottawatomie Tribe of Indians are nominated as appellants in this proceeding, they are in reality one and the same tribe.

In their petition plaintiffs complain of the commutation of the perpetual annuities in the sum of $9,037.90 per year to which they were entitled under...

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