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TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 43.

348 U.S. 272 (1955)

TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 7, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Craig Peacock argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Martin W. Meyer, William L. Paul, Jr., John E. Skilling and John H. Myers.

Ralph A. Barney argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Sobeloff, Assistant Attorney General Morton and John C. Harrington.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed on behalf of the States of Idaho, by Robert E. Smylie, Attorney General, and J. Clinton Peterson, Assistant Attorney General; New Mexico, by Richard H. Robinson, Attorney General, and Fred E. Wilson, Special Assistant Attorney General; and Utah, by E. R. Callister, Attorney General.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case rests upon a claim under the Fifth Amendment by petitioner, an identifiable group of American Indians of between 60 and 70 individuals residing in Alaska, for compensation for a taking by the United States of certain timber from Alaskan lands allegedly belonging to the group.1 The area claimed is said to contain over 350,000 acres of land and 150 square miles of water. The...

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