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SPRIGGS v. UNITED STATES

No. 6711.

297 F.2d 460 (1961)

John J. SPRIGGS, Sr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

November 18, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Spriggs, Sr., Lander, Wyo., pro se.

Robert S. Griswold, Jr., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert N. Chaffin, U. S. Atty., and Alfred G. Kaufman, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Cheyenne, Wyo., and Roger P. Marquis, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before BRATTON, PICKETT and HILL, Circuit Judges.

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

John J. Spriggs, an attorney, of Lander, Wyoming, brought this action to establish an undivided interest in certain parcels of land located in the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming.1 Spriggs' claim grew out of a deed from Mary Bradford O'Neal, an enrolled Shoshone Indian, to an interest in six Indian allotments. The deed was executed pursuant to a contingent fee contract for legal services rendered to Mrs....

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