Coos Bay Indian Tribe v. United States

The permissive legislation enabling the plaintiff Indians to bring this suit appears in Finding 1. This act not only describes the character of plaintiffs’ suit but gives by metes and bounds a description of the lands alleged to have been occupied and in possession of the plaintiffs and which as *150alleged were later taken and disposed of by the defendant. The amount claimed in the petition is $6,177,587.50 and interest thereon, reduced in the requested findings to $5,975,-056.25 and interest.

In all essential particulars the gravamen of plaintiffs’ complaint is similar to numerous other cases…