Seufert Bros. v. Hoptowit

This is a suit for an injunction, brought by Seufert Bros. Company, a corporation, as plaintiff, against Bay Hoptowit, as defendant, to restrain repeated trespasses, and involves certain rights claimed by defendant, as a Yakima Indian, under the provisions of the treaty between the United States and the Yakima (Yakama) tribe of Indians, made June 9, 1855. The suit was dismissed, and plaintiff appeals.

Plaintiff is the owner in fee simple of certain lands bordering on the Columbia river, in Oregon. These lands commence about three miles easterly from The Dalles, in Wasco county, and extend…