U.S. ON BEHALF OF HEIRS v. WEYERHAEUSER CO.

Civ. No. 90-6516-JO.

765 F.Supp. 643 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America on Behalf of HEIRS TO THE ABSENTEE WYANDOTTE ALLOTMENT of Laura M. VAN PELT, Plaintiff, v. WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

May 14, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Turner, U.S. Atty., Portland, Or., Richard B. Stewart, Land & Natural Resources Div., Environmental Defense Section, David W. Harder, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Indian Resources Section, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Norman J. Wiener, Peter C. Richter, Miller Nash Wiener Hager & Carlsen, Portland, Or., for defendant.


OPINION

ROBERT E. JONES, District Judge:

The United States brings this action to regain title to an eighty-acre tract of land in Klamath County, Oregon for the heirs of an Indian allottee. The United States, on behalf of the heirs of the allottee, requests an ejectment of defendant, a return of the land, and damages for nearly fifty years of alleged wrongful occupancy by defendant. The court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1345.

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