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SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. C-531(11).

78 F.Supp. 787 (1948)

SIOUX TRIBE OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

June 28, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph H. Case, of Washington, D. C. (James S. Y. Ivins, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Ralph A. Barney, of Oklahoma City, Okl., and A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen. (George T. Stormont, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

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

LITTLETON, Judge.

In 97 Ct. Cl. 391, in the first hearing under Rule 39(a), 28 U.S.C.A. following section 263, on the question as to plaintiff's legal right to recover, we held that defendant should account to the plaintiff under the terms of the agreement of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. 888, for $5,307,655.87, representing the proceeds derived from the disposition of 9,261,592.62 acres of land ceded by plaintiff, under the agreement, from the Great Sioux Reservation....

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