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YUCHI (EUCHEE) TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

Appeal Docket No. 5-55.

145 F.Supp. 206 (1956)

The YUCHI (EUCHEE) TRIBE OF INDIANS et al. v. The UNITED STATES and the Creek Nation, The Creek Nation East, Interpleader.

United States Court of Claims.

October 2, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis M. Dabney, Jr., New York City, for appellants, Yuchi Tribe of Indians, et al. J. T. Smith and Herbert S. French, Washington, D. C., were on the briefs.

Paul M. Niebell, Washington, D. C., for the Creek Nation, appellee.

Charles Bragman and C. LeNoir Thompson, Bay Minette, Ala., for the Creek Nation East, Interpleader appellee. Claude Pepper, Miami, Fla., Frank Horne and Hugh Rozelle, Atmore, Ala., were on the brief.

Ralph A. Barney, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Perry W. Morton, for the United States, appellee.

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

LITTLETON, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Yuchi (Euchee) Tribe of Indians et al., from an order of the Indian Claims Commission dismissing the appellant's claim for recovery in their own right of the value of certain land ceded to the United States Government by the treaties of August 9, 1814, 7 Stat. 120, and June 16, 1802, 7 Stat. 68, for which they claim no compensation was paid. The Indian Claims Commission in their Docket No. 21 (consolidated with this claim...

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