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CHIPPEWA INDIANS v. U.S.

No. 244.

305 U.S. 479 (1939)

59 S.Ct. 313

83 L.Ed. 300

CHIPPEWA INDIANS OF MINNESOTA v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Webster Ballinger for appellants.

Mr. Raymond T. Nagle, with whom Solicitor General Jackson, Assistant Attorney General McFarland, and Mr. Oscar Provost were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Chippewa Indians filed suit in the Court of Claims asserting two separate claims against the government. The government pleaded offsets greatly in excess of the claims of the Tribe. Dismissing the Tribe's petition as to both its claims,1 the Court found it unnecessary to pass upon the government's offsets, and therefore denied them without...

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