United States v. Shoshone Tribe of Indians

The Shoshone Tribe brought this suit to recover the value of part of its reservation taken by the United States by putting , upon it, without the tribe’s consent, a band of Arapahoe Indians. The Court of Claims found the taking to have been in August, 1891, ascertained value as of that date, on that basis fixed the amount of compensation, and gave judgment accordingly. We held, 299 U. S. 476, that the court erred as to the date of the taking, declared it to have been March 19, 1878, reversed the judgment and remanded the case for ‘further proceedings. Then the lower court proceeded to…