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DENNISON v. TOPEKA CHAMBERS INDUS. DEVELOPMENT

Civ. A. No. 79-1668.

527 F.Supp. 611 (1981)

Tommy Joe DENNISON and Leonard Franklin Dennison, for certain heirs of 23 Kaw Half-Breed Indians, Plaintiffs, v. TOPEKA CHAMBERS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a Kansas corporation, and Security Benefit Life Insurance Company, a Kansas corporation, for all persons claiming an interest in Kaw Half-Breed Reserves 1-23, Shawnee and Jefferson Counties, Kansas, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

November 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. B. Craig, Bachmann, Arnold, Graybill & Craig, Wichita, Kan., David Burlingame, O'Connor & Hannan, Denver, Colo., for plaintiffs.

Donald R. Newkirk, Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, Wichita, Kan., and John C. Christie, Jr., Bell, Boyd, Lloyd, Haddad & Burns, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

OPINION OF THE COURT

THEIS, District Judge.

Defendants' motion for summary judgment in this case affords the Court an opportunity to journey back in American history and to close the book on another unsalutary volume in the history of the treatment of the Indian people by the white immigrants to this land. Plaintiffs ask the Court to add a final chapter to this saga that, to the plaintiffs at least, would constitute a happy ending. Defendants state that...

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