United States v. Holt State Bank

This is a bill in equity by the United States to quiet in it the title to the bed of Mud Lake — now drained and uncovered — in Marshall County, Minnesota, and to enjoin the defendants from asserting any claim thereto. After answer and a hearing the District Court entered a decree dismissing the bill on the merits. The United States appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, where the decree was affirmed, 294 Fed. 161, and then by a further appeal brought the case here.

Mud Lake is within what formerly was known as the Red Lake Indian Reservation, which had an area exceeding 3,000,000 acres and…