CADDO TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA v. UNITED STATES

No. 1-57.

155 F.Supp. 727 (1957)

The CADDO TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA et al. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

October 9, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. R. McGuire, Washington, D. C., for appellant. Jay H. Hoag, Duluth, Minn., was on the briefs.

Clifford R. Stearns, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Perry W. Morton, for appellee.

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


LITTLETON, Judge.

Appellant Indian tribe asks this court to review and reverse a determination of the Indian Claims Commission partially adverse to appellant's assertion of ownership, use or occupancy of lands in northwestern Louisiana and southwestern Arkansas which appellant tribe purported to cede to the United States by treaty in 1835. Treaty of July 1, 1835, 7 Stat. 470. The case is presently before us on appellee's motion to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction...

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