UNITED STATES v. VULLES

No. 1529.

282 F.Supp. 829 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, Intervenor, v. Mike VULLES and Vladimir Vulles, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Montana, Missoula Division.

April 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moody Brickett, U. S. Atty., Butte, Mont., for plaintiff.

Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Richard A. Baenen and John W. Cragun, of the firm, Washington, D. C., George F. Higgins, Missoula, Mont., for defendants.

Eugene H. Mahoney, Thompson Falls, Mont., for intervenor.


OPINION

RUSSELL E. SMITH, District Judge.

This opinion involves the right of the individual members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, (the Tribe) to use a road in Sanders County, Montana, known as the Vanderburg Trail (the Trail), to gain access to tribal lands from a public highway.1 This road runs over the lands of the defendants who are the successors in interest of an Indian...

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