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CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

Docket No. 2-52.

109 F.Supp. 238 (1953)

CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS IN OKLAHOMA ex rel. WESTERN (OLD SETTLER) CHEROKEE INDIANS et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

January 13, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Niebell, Washington, D. C., Wilfred Hearn, Chevy Chase, George E. Norvell, Tulsa, Okl., Earl Boyd Pierce, Muskogee, Okl., Houston B. Tehee, Tahlequah, Okl. and Dennis Bushyhead, Tulsa, Okl., on the briefs, for appellants.

Ralph A. Barney, Oklahoma City, Okl., James M. McInerney, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

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

MADDEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Indian Claims Commission. The Commission decided that the claim prosecuted before it by the appellants was without merit, and dismissed it. The claim was for compensation for 14,160,000 acres of land which, the appellant contended, had been promised the Cherokee Indians during the negotiation of a treaty made between them and the United States in 1817, but which, by mistake, was not included in that treaty and was never thereafter...

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