United States v. Mescalero Apache Tribe

This is an appeal by the Government from orders of the Indian Claims Commission (Commission) in three Indian accounting cases (consolidated for this appeal) in which the Commission awarded simple and compound interest from 1883 to 1930 against the Government on trust funds it held for the three appellee Indian Tribes, notwithstanding the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2516(a) (1970) and the well established rule set forth in many decisions of the Supreme Court and of this court and other courts that in noneminent domain cases interest on a/claim against the United States can be allowed only under…