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CONFEDERATED BANDS OF UTE INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 45783.

64 F.Supp. 569 (1946)

CONFEDERATED BANDS OF UTE INDIANS v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

March 4, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Wilkinson, of Washington, D. C. (John W. Cragun and Francis M. Goodwin, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Wilfred Hearn, of Washington, D. C., and J. Edward Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen. (George T. Stormont and Marvin J. Sonosky, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, JONES, and MADDEN, Judges.

WHITAKER, Judge.

The issue in this case is over the defendant's liability to account for the sale of certain lands added to plaintiffs' reservation by Executive Order.

On March 2, 1868, 15 Stat. 619, the parties entered into a treaty under the terms of which the plaintiffs ceded to the defendant all the lands to which they laid claim, except those in the southwest section of the present State of Colorado. The lands reserved were bounded on the east by the...

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