McGHEE v. UNITED STATES

Appeal No. 1-70.

437 F.2d 995 (1971)

C. W. McGHEE, Ruby Z. Weatherford, John V. Phillips and John Williams, as Members of and on the Relation of the Creek Nation East of the Mississippi v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

February 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Elliott, Washington, D.C., attorney of record, for appellants. C. LeNoir Thompson, Bay Minette, Ala., Micah H. Naftalin, and Tobias Naftalin, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Lester Reynolds, Washington, D.C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen., Shiro Kashiwa, for appellee.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, and LARAMORE, DURFEE, DAVIS, COLLINS, SKELTON, and NICHOLS, Judges.


ON APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION

COLLINS, Judge:

This case is on appeal from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission1 denying appellants' motion for leave to amend their petition, and dismissing that petition in part The appellants are descendants of the original Creek Nation of Indians and appear here as members of and on the relation of the Creek Nation East of the Mississippi...

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