Sakezzie v. Utah State Indian Affairs Commission

CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM DECISION

This case in its present post-judgment phase presents further problems in relation to the defendant Commission’s statutory duty with reference to a fund entrusted to the State of Utah by Congress from oil royalties from leased land in the so-called Aneth Extension of the Navajo Indian Reservation on condition that it be expended for designated purposes “or for the benefit of the Indians residing therein”. Public Law No. 403, 47 Stat. 1418; Chapter 22, Title 63, Utah Code Annotated, 1953. 1

The plaintiffs, pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2202, 2 have…