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SEIFERT v. UDALL

Civ. No. 1556.

280 F.Supp. 443 (1968)

Carl A. SEIFERT, Plaintiff, v. Stewart L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, and the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Montana, Missoula Division.

February 29, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christian & McCurdy and Douglas D. Dasinger, Polson, Mont., for plaintiff.

Moody Brickett, U. S. Atty., Butte, Mont., for defendant Udall & United States.

Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and George F. Higgins, Missoula, Mont., for Confederated Salish, etc. Tribe.

OPINION AND ORDER

RUSSELL E. SMITH, District Judge.

Plaintiff, the successor to a Flathead Indian allotee, who had secured a patent to land bordering Flathead Lake on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, brings this action to determine his rights in lands lying between the lake's high and low water marks. The resolution of plaintiff's problems would of necessity involve an examination of the rights of the Indians and the United States as trustee for...

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