Legal Opinion
Spaeth v. United States Secretary of Interior
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 15, 1985No. Nos. 84-5039, 84-5054PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
Sylvester and Altha Spaeth brought this action against the United States and Norman and Wallace Danielson, seeking a declaratory judgment that the United States’s claims of title to certain tracts of the Spaeths’ farm, on behalf of unknown heirs of past Indian owners of the land, are without merit. Against the Danielsons, the Spaeths sought damages for raising an allegedly invalid defense of title defects as a bar to complying with a contract for purchase of the Spaeth farm. The district court granted the United States’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. MottleySupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Choate v. TrappSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- United States v. RickertSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
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3Cited by6 opinions
- The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a Public Agency of the State of California, and the Coachella Valley Water District, a Public Agency of the State of California v. The United States of America Donald P. Hodel, Secretary, U.S. Department of Interior, and Quechan Indian Tribe Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, and Colorado River Indian Tribes, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants v. State of California and State of ArizonaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
- Black Hills Institute of Geological Research v. United States, Department of JusticeDistrict Court, D. South Dakota · 1993
- Metropolitan Water District v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
- Spaeth v. United States Secretary Of The InteriorCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- Bordeaux v. HuntDistrict Court, D. South Dakota · 1985
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