Bauman v. Choctaw-Chickasaw Nations

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal grows out of a condemnation action brought by the United States to acquire land for the Eufaula Dam and Reservoir Project in Oklahoma. The issues have been reduced to whether appellant Bauman, as trustee, or appellee Choctaw-Chickasaw Nations own Tract L-1240. We are concerned with lands in Sections 20 and 29 which the Canadian River,1 a non-navigable stream,- has crossed in various meandering channels during the last 60-70 years.

*787The government brought action No. 4737 to condemn Tract L-1229 which includes all the South Half, and a narrow strip of the…