Jimerson v. Halftown Estate

Gibson, P. J.,

This controversy between Indians of the Seneca Nation residing on the Cattaraugus reservation involves conflicting claims to an award by the Court of Claims for real property appropriated by the State for Thruway purposes. The issues are well outlined in the comprehensive opinion written at Special Term (44 Misc 2d 1028) which held that the Supreme Court will not interfere with the decision of the Council of the Seneca Nation which termed “ indefinite ”, and “ set aside and held for naught ” its prior decision adjudicating the rights of the parties, and directed that the parties…