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WESTERN CHEROKEE INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

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86 F.Supp. 981 (1949)

WESTERN (OLD SETTLER) CHEROKEE INDIANS ex rel. OWEN et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

November 7, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woodson E. Norvell, Tulsa, Okl., for appellants.

Houston B. Tehee, Earl Boyd Pierce, Muskogee, Okl., Dennis Bushyhead, Tulsa Okl., and George E. Norvell, Oklahoma City, Okl., were on the briefs.

Ralph A. Barney, Oklahoma City, Okl., with whom was A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee. Jules H. Sigal, Washington, D. C., was on the brief.

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

MADDEN, Judge.

We have this case on an appeal from the Indian Claims Commission. The respective jurisdictions of the Commission, and of this Court on appeal, were created by the Act of Congress approved August 13, 1946, 60 Stat. 1049, 25 U.S.C.A. §§ 70a, 70s. We reprint the first two paragraphs of Section 70a in a footnote.1 The appellants filed their petition with the Commission,...

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