United States v. Earl F. Emmons and Andreas Corporation

BARNES, Circuit Judge:

The United States filed a complaint in ejectment, to quiet title, for cancellation of an instrument, and for damages, alleging it was the holder of fee simple title in trust to certain allotted Indian land, for the benefit of one Lorene Wel-mas McGlamary, a member of the Agua Caliente (Palm Springs) Band of Mission Indians. She had made an “approved lease,” dated April 1, 1955 with appellee Emmons, but Emmons had made an unapproved assignment to Andreas Corporation, and an unapproved “side agreement” dated October 31, 1956, with Mc-Glamary agreeing to a fifty year…