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MOLE LAKE BAND v. UNITED STATES

No. 45162 (1).

139 F.Supp. 938 (1956)

MOLE LAKE BAND, Lac Du Flambeau Band, Lac Courte Oreilles Band, Bad River, Otherwise Known as the La Pointe Band, Red Cliff Band, St. Croix Band, Comprising Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, Plaintiffs, and the State of Wisconsin, Intervenor, v. The UNITED STATES, Defendant, and Fond Du Lac Band, Grand Portage Band, and Nett Lake Band, Otherwise Known as Bois Forte Band, All Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, Intervenors.

United States Court of Claims.

April 3, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay H. Hoag, Duluth, Minn., Ward Winton, Shell Lake, Wis., Vern R. Edwards, Superior, Wis., G. Arthur Johnson, Ashland, Wis., Clarence G. Lindquist, and Lathers, Hoag & Edwards, Duluth, Minn., on the brief, for plaintiffs.

Stewart G. Honeck, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Gordon Samuelsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., both of Wisconsin, Vernon W. Thomson, Atty. Gen. of Wisconsin, on the brief, for intervenor.

Clifford R. Stearns, Washington, D. C., with whom was Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

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

MADDEN, Judge.

This is a suit by the Lac du Flambeau, Lac Courte Oreilles and Bad River Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. It relates to swamp lands lying within the separate reservations of these three bands of Indians. The complaint of the Indians is that the United States, when it created their reservations, granted to them areas of land which included land which it had, some years before, granted to the State of Wisconsin, and that as a result...

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