Paul v. Nauska

AREND, Justice.

The principal question presented on the appeal in this case is whether the superior court was correct in holding that it had no jurisdiction to decide a supplemental issue growing out of a decision rendered by the Court of Claims of the United States in favor of the Stikine Tribal Community of the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska.

The appellant, William L. Paul, Sr., appeared as plaintiff below for himself individually and as a member of the class of Alaska Indians mentioned. In his complaint he asked the superior court to require the defendants, who are named as appellees in…