Wippert v. Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation

Verlin R. Wippert and Loretta Wippert Rex, plaintiffs below, appeal from a decision of the Ninth Judicial District, Glacier County, ordering the Wipperts to pay the Blackfeet Tribe a deficiency judgment of $14,330.59. We reverse.

This case was originally filed as a quiet title action, and was first considered by this Court in Wippert v. Blackfeet Tribe (Mont. 1982), [201 Mont. 299,] 654 P.2d 512, 39 St.Rep. 2117. At that time we affirmed the trial court’s determination that a Blackfeet Tribal Court judgment against the Wipperts must be enforced as a matter of comity. However, the case was…