CHOCTAW NATION v. CHEROKEE NATION

Civ. No. 73-332.

393 F.Supp. 224 (1975)

The CHOCTAW NATION and the Chickasaw Nation, Plaintiffs, v. The CHEROKEE NATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Oklahoma.

April 15, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lon Kile, Hugo, Okl., for plaintiffs.

Earl Boyd Pierce, Fort Gibson, Okl., and Andrew Wilcoxen, Muskogee, Okl., for defendant.

Before HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge, and BOHANON and DAUGHERTY, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

BOHANON, District Judge.

In this case the plaintiff, Choctaw Nation, alleges that it owns an undivided ¾ interest and the plaintiff, Chickasaw Nation, an undivided ¼ interest in the natural bed of the Arkansas River from the confluence of the Arkansas River with the Canadian River thence to the Oklahoma-Arkansas boundary line, and both plaintiffs contend that their title encompassing the entire river bed should be quieted.

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