Legal Opinion

Glacier County, Mont. v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided October 15, 1938No. 8734PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a decree quieting title of the United States to lands in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Glacier County, Montana, and giving judgment for the recovery with interest of taxes collected by the county from Indian allottees.

The cause was tried without a jury upon documentary evidence and an agreed statement of facts. Briefly, the record discloses that in the year 1918 patents covering the lands involved were issued to the United States in trust for twenty-seven Indians to whom the lands had been allotted in severalty. Within two years thereafter, fee…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. United States v. Nez Perce County, IdahoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1938
  2. United States v. Benewah CountyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1923
  3. United States v. Lewis County, IdahoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1938
  4. Fulton Oil Co. v. Toole CountyMontana Supreme Court · 1930
  5. United States v. Nez Perce CountyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1938

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Board of Comm'rs of Jackson Cty. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
  2. United States v. Ahtanum Irrigation DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
  3. Robert C. Kirkwood, Controller of the State of California v. Lee Arenas, Richard Brown Arenas and United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1957
  4. Jones, Collector of Internal Revenue v. TaunahCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1951
  5. Bacher v. PatencioDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1964

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