FORMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 15892.

256 F.2d 766 (1958)

Clarence FORMAN, Annie Forman, Thelma Welch, John Welch, Clarence Forman, Jr., and Dorothy Forman, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 8, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Danforth, Jr., Sioux Falls, S. D., for appellants.

Robert S. Griswold, Jr., Attorney, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Clinton G. Richards, U. S. Atty., Lyle E. Cheever, Asst. U. S. Atty., Sioux Falls, S. D., and Roger P. Marquis, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought by the United States, for and on behalf of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians, to quiet title to and regain possession of a tract of approximately 80 acres of land occupied by the defendants, Clarence Forman and members of his family,1 and to enjoin defendants from removing certain improvements they had erected upon the land. Defendants answered that this land had been allotted to...

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