Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation v. United States

OPINION

This is the third time the claim set forth in paragraph 13 of plaintiffs’ mul-ti-claim petition has come before us. In *1316Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes v. United States, 181 Ct.Cl. 739 (1967), we held that a proper claim had been stated on the pleadings. In Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes v. United States, 417 F.2d 1340, 189 Ct.Cl. 319 (1969), after a trial, we returned the case for a full new trial, and set forth in our opinion what plaintiffs would have to show in order to recover. The second trial was had before Trial Commissioner Harry E. Wood who has filed a report…