Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community v. United States

LITTLETON, Judge.

In their petition filed in this court on October 5, 1953, plaintiffs seek to recover money judgments in eight separate causes of action and also seek an accounting. 1 Defendant has moved for judgment on the pleadings or for summary judgment on each cause of action except the seventh.

Plaintiffs’ first cause of action seeks recovery in- the amount of $32,351,280' for the alleged failure and refusal of the United States to deliver to the plaintiffs the natural flow and the stored waters of the Gila River and also for the alleged failure of the defendant to stop various…