Imperial Granite Co. v. Pala Band of Mission Indians

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Imperial Granite Company brought this action against the Pala Band of Mission Indians, certain of its officers, and all members of the tribe. Imperial alleged that it was the lessee of a tract of fee property surrounded by the Band’s reservation, and that in about 1933 the government had built a road to the tract that crossed a portion of the reservation. Imperial’s lessors had used the road as the only access to their land and, after Imperial leased the property, it used the road as the only access to its quarry. In 1987, the Band denied further access to the road, and…