The CHEROKEE NATION, etc., Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
The STATE OF OKLAHOMA et al., Defendants,
The Choctaw Nation and the Chickasaw Nation, Intervenors-Appellants.
The CHEROKEE NATION, etc., Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
The STATE OF OKLAHOMA et al., Defendants-Appellants,
The Choctaw Nation and The Chickasaw Nation, Intervenors-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 1, 1972.
Rehearings Denied June 27, 1972.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lon Kile, Hugo, Okl., for The Choctaw Nation and The Chickasaw Nation.
S. M. Groom, Jr., and Odie Nance, Oklahoma City, Okl., for the State of Okl. and others (with them on the briefs were Larry Derryberry, Atty. Gen. of Okl., for The State of Okl.; N. A. Gibson, Midwest City, Okl., and James E. Slater, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Commissioners of the Land Office; Jay R. Bond of Ross, Holtzendorff & Bond, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Eason Oil Co.; Frederic Dorwart of Holliman, Langholz & Runnels, Tulsa, Okl., and W. Douglas Weisbruch, Legal Depart., Dallas, Tex., for Lone Star Producing Co.; Riley B. Fell and David O. Cordell, Tulsa, Okl., for Marathon Oil Company; Sam C. Oliver, Tulsa, Okl., for Skelly Oil Co.; Luther Hudson of Hudson, Keltner, Smith & Cunningham, Ft. Worth, Tex., for Southland Royalty Co.; Robert W. Richards for Mobil Oil Corp.; Varley Taylor, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Robert L. Norris, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Humble Oil & Refining Co.; Millard F. Carr, Denver, Colo., for Tenneco Oil Co.; H. B. Watson of Walker & Watson, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Tenneco Oil Co. and Union Oil Co. of Cal.; and Roy Z. Johnson, Bartlesville, Okl., for Cities Service Oil Co.).
Earl Boyd Pierce, Fort Gibson, Okl., and Andrew Wilcoxen, Muskogee, Okl., for The Cherokee Nation (with them on the brief were Paul M. Niebell, Michael S. Yaroschuk, Washington, D. C., and Joseph C. Muskrat, Chesterton, Ind.).
John D. Helm, Washington, D. C., for The United States, amicus curiae, in both cases (with him on the brief were Shiro Kashiwa, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Edmund B. Clark and Robert S. Lynch, Attys., Dept. of Justice, and Richard A. Pyle, U. S. Atty.).
Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
We have again the three-pronged controversy over ownership of the bed of the Arkansas River, a navigable stream, in Oklahoma. When the case was first here we affirmed the district court holding that title was in Oklahoma, Cherokee Nation v. Oklahoma, 10 Cir., 402 F.2d 739. The Supreme Court reversed sub nom. Choctaw Nation v. Oklahoma, 397 U.S. 620, 90 S.Ct. 1328, 25 L.Ed...
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