Blackfeet Tribe of Blackfeet Indian Reservation v. Klies Livestock Co.

JAMESON, District Judge.

This suit was instituted in the District Court of the Ninth Judicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the County of Glacier. The United States of America was joined as a defendant pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2410, and removed the case to this court, as authorized by Title 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1444 and 1446.

The plaintiff is a tribe of American Indians organized as a corporation under the Act of June 18, 1934, (48 Stat. 987, 25 U.S.C.A. §§ 476, 477) and is authorized to sue and be sued in its own name. The Blackfeet Tribe, through its Tribal Council, entered…