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CHITTO v. UNITED STATES

Appeals Docket No. 2-55.

138 F.Supp. 253 (1956)

Joseph CHITTO et al., Members, and as the Representatives of, and on Relation of, the Choctaw Indians East of the Mississippi River v. The UNITED STATES. The UNITED STATES v. Joseph CHITTO et al., Members, and as the Representatives of, and on the Relation of, the Choctaw Indians East of the Mississippi River. Appeal of the CHOCTAW NATION from Order of the Indian Claims Commission Denying Motion for Leave to Intervene.

United States Court of Claims.

January 31, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Handwerk, Washington, D. C., for Joseph Chitto and others. William T. Weir, Philadelphia, Miss., was on the briefs.

Curtis C. Shears, Washington, D. C., with whom was Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.

W. F. Semple, Tulsa, Okl., for Choctaw Nation.

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

LITTLETON, Judge.

This case involves cross appeals from the final determination of the Indian Claims Commission entered in Commission Docket No. 52, February 3, 1955 (3 Ind.Cls.Com. 288), denying the petitioners' first and second alternative prayers for relief and awarding judgment in the sum of $417,656 on the third prayer. There is also before the court the appeal of the Choctaw Nation from the Commission's order of January 24, 1955, denying the Nation's motion...

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