ROLETTE COUNTY v. ELTOBGI

Civ. No. 9005.

221 N.W.2d 645 (1974)

ROLETTE COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of North Dakota, Acting for and on Behalf of the ROLETTE COUNTY WELFARE BOARD, Petitioner and Appellant, v. Mohammed M. K. ELTOBGI, Respondent and Appellee.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

August 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Hart, State's Atty., Rolette County, Rolla, for petitioner and appellant.

Thomas L. Smithson and Thomas W. Fredericks, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colo., and Julian H. Brown, Pierre, S. D., for Devils Lake Sioux Tribe, amicus curiae.


VOGEL, Judge.

This action raises the question whether Federal or State law relating to Indians prohibits the courts of this State from proceeding under the revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, Chapter 14-12.1, N.D.C.C., to request another State to enforce the duty of a non-Indian husband and father, not resident in this State, to support his Indian wife and child who live within this State upon an Indian reservation.

Mohammed M. K. Eltobgi...

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