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WILLIAMS v. LEE

No. 39.

358 U.S. 217 (1959)

79 S.Ct. 269

3 L.Ed.2d 251

WILLIAMS ET UX. v. LEE, DOING BUSINESS AS GANADO TRADING POST.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 12, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman M. Littell argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief was Frederick Bernays Wiener.

Wm. W. Stevenson argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was W. Dean Nutting.

Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Morton and Roger P. Marquis field a brief for the United States, as amicus curiae, at the invitation of the Court, 356 U.S. 930, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondent, who is not an Indian, operates a general store in Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation under a license required by federal statute.1 He brought this action in the Superior Court of Arizona against petitioners, a Navajo Indian and his wife who live on the Reservation, to collect for goods sold them there on credit. Over petitioners...

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