UNITED STATES v. FORT SILL APACHE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA

Appeal No. 3-72.

480 F.2d 819 (1973)

The UNITED STATES of America v. The FORT SILL APACHE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA and the Chiricahua Apache Tribe et al.

United States Court of Claims.

June 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. S. Weissbrodt, Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for appellees. Weissbrodt & Weissbrodt, Abe W. Weissbrodt, Richmond F. Allan, Ruth W. Duhl, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

A. Donald Mileur, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Kent Frizzell, for appellant. Dean K. Dunsmore, Christopher Smith, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, DURFEE, Senior Judge, and DAVIS, SKELTON, NICHOLS, KUNZIG and BENNETT, Judges.


DURFEE, Senior Judge:

The United States appeals (a) from the final judgment and order of the Indian Claims Commission dated August 25, 1971,1 in Dockets 30, 30-A, 48 and 48-A, awarding compensation under Section 2, Clause 4, of the Indian Claims Commission Act (60 Stat. 1049) for the forcible taking by the United States of certain lands in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona to which appellees held aboriginal title and (b...

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