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WISE v. UNITED STATES

No. 6808.

297 F.2d 822 (1961)

Irene Ward Chingman WISE, a Shoshone Indian, Appellant, v. The UNITED STATES of America, The Arapahoe Indian Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, Kewanee Oil Company and Delbert Ward, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

November 7, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Spriggs, Sr., Lander, Wyo. (John J. Spriggs, Jr., Lander, Wyo., on the brief), for appellant.

Hugh Nugent, Washington, D. C. (Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert N. Chaffin, U. S. Atty., Cheyenne, Wyo., and S. Billingsley Hill, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee United States.

Claron C. Spencer, Washington, D. C. (Glen A. Wilkinson, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee Arapahoe Indian Tribe.

Before PHILLIPS, PICKETT and HILL, Circuit Judges.

HILL, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment denying the appellant relief entitling her to receive an allotment of and a patent to a tract of land located on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. The jurisdiction of the Court is derived from 25 U.S.C.A. § 345 and 28 U.S.C.A. § 1353.

The action was instituted in the District of Columbia and thereafter transferred to the District of Wyoming. While the case was pending in the District...

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