MARTINEZ v. SOUTHERN UTE TRIBE OF SOUTHERN UTE RES.

No. 5650.

249 F.2d 915 (1957)

Mary MARTINEZ, Appellant, v. The SOUTHERN UTE TRIBE OF the SOUTHERN UTE RESERVATION, a corporation; and Samuel Burch, Julius Cloud, Virgil Red, Bonny Kent, John Baker and Sunshine C. Smith, as the Members of the Council of the Southern Ute Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 17, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bentley M. McMullin, Denver, Colo. (Lewis M. Perkins and Howell W. Cobb, Durango, Colo., were with him on the brief), for appellant.

LaVerne H. McKelvey and R. Franklin McKelvey, Durango, Colo., for appellees.

Before MURRAH, PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.


LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Alleging that she is entitled to but has been denied membership and the benefits of membership in the defendant corporation, plaintiff seeks to adjudicate her claims through complaint lodged with the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. 151 F.Supp. 476. Named as defendants are the Southern Ute Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, a federal corporation organized and chartered in accordance...

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