Huntington v. Donovan
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Paul J. McCormick, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWilbur, J.
This is an action to quiet title to a quarter-section of land near Del Sur, Los Angeles County, within the overlapping United States land grant to the Atlantic & Pacific Railway, made by Congress in 1866 (14 U. S. Stats. 292) in aid of its proposed railroad from the Colorado River to the Pacific Ocean, and the grant made in 1871 (16 U. S. Stats. 573) to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for its “branch line” from Tehachapi to Yuma via Los Angeles. The latter grant was void as to lands in the overlapping grants, and in 1886 the rights of the former reverted to the United States, and the…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Southern Pacific Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Steel v. Smelting Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Gibson v. ChouteauSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- United States v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
- United States v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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