Dillon v. Antler Land Company

OPINION AND ORDER

RUSSELL E. SMITH, Chief Judge.

In October 1955 plaintiff, a Crow Indian, sold 1040 acres of land to the Antler Land Company of Wyola (hereafter Antler Land). In June 1970 she filed this action. In her first claim she seeks to vest the title to the land in herself or in the United States as her trustee and to recover rents and profits.

In support of the first claim, three theories, all stemming from plaintiff’s status as an Indian, are urged: first, that there was fraud which vitiated the patent from the United States to plaintiff and the deed from her to Antler Land; second,…