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TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 50385.

120 F.Supp. 202 (1954)

TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

Writ of Certiorari Granted June 7, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Craig Peacock, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff. Williams, Myers & Quiggle, Martin W. Meyer, Washington, D. C., William L. Paul, Jr., Juneau, Alaska, Frederick Paul, Seattle, Wash., John E. Skilling, and John H. Myers, Washington, D. C., were on the briefs.

Ralph A. Barney, Washington, D. C., with whom was Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge, JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER and MADDEN, Judges.

Writ of Certiorari Granted June 7, 1954. See 74 S.Ct. 864.

MADDEN, Judge.

This is a suit by the Tee-hit-ton Indians, a "clan" of American Indians in Alaska. They are descendants of the earliest known native inhabitants of an area of land in southeastern Alaska. They claim that a compensable interest in land belonging to them was taken when the United States, on August 20, 1951, agreed to sell to a pulp and paper company all merchantable timber on a specified...

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