ATTOCKNIE v. UDALL

No. 9391.

390 F.2d 636 (1968)

Willis ATTOCKNIE, Appellant, v. Stewart L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

March 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Durward McDaniel, Oklahoma City, Okl. (David Cobb, Washington, D. C., and Darrell Winings, Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on the brief), for appellant.

Frank B. Friedman, Atty., Dept. of Justice (J. Edward Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., B. Andrew Potter, U. S. Atty., Robert L. Berry, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Roger P. Marquis, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before HILL and SETH, Circuit Judges, and DOYLE, District Judge.


SETH, Circuit Judge.

The appellant is a Comanche Indian who seeks judicial relief from certain determinations by the Secretary of the Interior relative to the last will and testament of Albert Attocknie, a deceased Comanche Indian allottee.

The petitioner, in the administrative proceedings, contested the approval of the decedent's will on the ground that the decedent was not competent, and was suffering at the time the will was executed from an insane delusion...

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