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MONROE v. CAL. YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS CHURCH

No. 76-1005.

564 F.2d 304 (1977)

Eugene MONROE, Leslie Williams, Tim Richards, Wilson Ashby, Susie Hunnicutt, Franklin Harris, Henry Harris, Sr., Johnny Snyder, Daniel Thomas, Jr., Charlie Kiana, Mahlon Mills, Levi A. Mills, Sr., Jenny Sours, Eugene Sours, Joe Harris, Lydia Harris, L. Kasrie, Fredrick Driggs, Abraham Howarth, Edna Outwater, Clara Sampson, Wilfred Lane, Vivian Lane, Charlie Clark, Ingram Melton, William Jones, Douglas Sheldon, Sr., Delbert Walton, Fletcher F. Gregg, Sr., Lena Sours, Homer Mills, Norma Mills, Rex Sampson, Edgar Swan, Sarah Scott, James Norton, Clarence Allen, Frank Scott, Sr., Beatrice Mills, Billy Glober, Charlie Richards, Virgil Naylor, Della Keats, Saul Sheidt, Bessie Lee, Dora Hadley, Fred Walton, George Melton, Claude Wilson, Lillian Gregg, Martha Wood, Cora Hadley, Willard Hunnicutt, Russell Adams, Mrs. Homer Russell, Homer Russell, Grace Bailey, Fletcher Gregg, Jr., Charlie Sours, Enoch Sherman, Whittier Williams, Jr., Russell Williams, Samuel Williams, Sr., Harry Outwater, Mahlon Uhl, Elmer Williams, Elmer Armstrong, Sr., George Thomas, Blaine Barger, Roger Wright, Belle Sours, Ida Hadley, Ervin Smith, Ana Thomas, and the Kotzebue Friends Church Ministry & Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CALIFORNIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS CHURCH, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

November 8, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul C. O'Connell, Anchorage, Alaska (argued) for appellants.

Timothy G. Middleton, Anchorage, Alaska (argued) for appellee.

Before WRIGHT, CHOY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

Appellants are Native Eskimos who seek title to land presently held by appellee, a Quaker organization which established a mission in Kotzebue, Alaska in 1897. In 1941, pursuant to 48 U.S.C. § 356 (now found at 25 U.S.C. § 280a), appellee obtained a patent to the land now disputed. Appellants contend the statute created a trust for their benefit.1 The district court dismissed and we affirm....

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