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CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

Appeals Docket No. 3-52.

109 F.Supp. 532 (1953)

CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS IN OKLAHOMA for and on Behalf of WESTERN (OLD SETTLER) CHEROKEE INDIANS v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

February 3, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Niebell, Washington, D. C., for the appellants. Wilfred Hearn, Chevy Chase, Md., George E. Norvell, Tulsa, Okl., Earl Boyd Pierce, Muskogee, Okl., Houston B. Tehee, Tahlequah, Okl. and Dennis Bushyhead, Tulsa, Okl., were on the briefs.

Ralph A. Barney, Oklahoma City, Okl., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. James M. McInerney, for the appellee.

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

MADDEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission, which in its Docket No. 24 dismissed the petition of the appellants. The action before the Commission was brought by the Cherokee Nation, in behalf of the Western Cherokee Indians, for the true value of two-thirds of a tract of 13,574,135.14 acres of land in the Indian Territory which, the appellants alleged, was owned exclusively by the Western Cherokees, but which was taken from them...

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