Starlie Lomayaktewa v. Stanley K. Hathaway, and Arizona Public Service Company, Intervenors-Appellees

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• finding that the Hopi Tribe of Arizona is a necessary and indispensable party to a 1 for a res, i.e., a strip of land
• Hopi Tribe was a necessary party to a suit by an individual challenging a 11 lease between the Hopi Tribe and a coal company
• “[n]o procedural principle is more deeply imbedded in the common law than that, in an action to set aside a lease or a contract, all parties who may be affected by the determination of the action are indispensable”
• tribal members sought to void lease entered into' by absent tribe
• “No procedural principle is more deeply imbedded in the common law than that, in an action to set aside a lease or a contract, all parties who may be affected by the determination of the action are indispensable.”
• plaintiff sought to cancel lease on which absent tribe was lessor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).