Spriggs v. Seaton

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming sustaining a motion by defendants, Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America, and Mary Bradford, also known as Mary Bradford O’Neal Chandler,1 to dismiss appellant’s complaint against them.

A somewhat detailed statement of the facts is essential to an understanding of the case. Appellant is a practicing lawyer in Lander, Wyoming. In 1924, Mary Bradford, the widow of a Shoshone Indian, William F. O’Neal, employed Spriggs to represent her in a…