Legal Opinion
Puyallup Indian Tribe v. Port of Tacoma
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1983No. 81-3480PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
This case involves a question of title to part of the former bed of the Puyallup River. The Port of Tacoma appeals from a ruling by the district court that the Tribe received title to the riverbed by treaty in 1857 and that a river rechannelization project in 1948-50 that exposed the former riverbed was an avulsive change of the river’s course which left title to the bed in the Tribe as the pre-avulsion owner. See Puyallup Tribe of Indians v. Port of Tacoma, 525 F.Supp. 65 (W.D.Wash.1981). The Port further challenges the court’s ruling that the State of Washington and…
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