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UNITED STATES v. SEATON

No. 13634.

248 F.2d 154 (1957)

UNITED STATES ex rel. The SHOSHONE INDIAN TRIBE and The Arapahoe Indian Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, et al., Appellants, v. Fred A. SEATON, Secretary of the Interior, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 5, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Glen A. Wilkinson and Donald C. Gormley, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Roger P. Marquis, Attorney, Department of Justice, for appellee. Mr. S. Billingsley Hill, Attorney, Department of Justice, also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and DANAHER and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Two Indian tribes and their representatives contest the Secretary of the Interior's leasing of lands in which the tribes claim an interest. They appeal from a judgment dismissing their complaint.

An Act of Congress of August 15, 1953, 67 Stat. 592, provides in Section 1 for payment by the United States, to the two tribes, of $1,009,500 as "full, complete, and final compensation, except as provided in section 5 of this Act, for terminating and extinguishing...

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