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COLSON v. HICKEL

No. 26212.

428 F.2d 1046 (1970)

Barney R. COLSON et al., Appellants, v. Walter J. HICKEL, Secretary of the Interior, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing Denied August 17, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Rodgers, Richard Hildreth, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Edward F. Boardman, U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Ramsey Clark, Atty. Gen. of U. S., Herbert Pittle, Roger P. Marquis, Shiro Kashiwa and Clyde O. Martz, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before COLEMAN, SIMPSON, and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 17, 1970.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

It is hardly likely that the Treaty Makers at Prairie du Chien in the year 1830 had any idea that their work would be the starting point for litigation a hundred and forty years out in the future, but it was. This case bristles with legal questions, but the facts are undisputed. The legal complications are compounded by the presence of two separate sets of land scrip, each...

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