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PUYALLUP INDIAN TRIBE v. PORT OF TACOMA

No. 81-3480.

717 F.2d 1251 (1983)

PUYALLUP INDIAN TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PORT OF TACOMA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 15, 1983.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1983.

Certiorari Denied February 21, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Howard Bell, Law Office, Puyallup Indian Tribe, Tacoma, Wash., for plaintiff-appellee.

James J. Mason, Tacoma, Wash., for defendant-appellant.

Before BROWNING, Chief Judge, FLETCHER and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Denied February 21, 1984. See 104 S.Ct. 1324.

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a question of title to part of the former bed of the Puyallup River. The Port of Tacoma appeals from a ruling by the district court that the Tribe received title to the riverbed by treaty in 1857 and that a river rechannelization project in 1948-50 that exposed the former riverbed was an avulsive change of the river's course which left title to the bed in the...

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