Northern Pac. R. v. Cannon

The plaintiff sets forth in its bill of complaint filed herein that it received a grant from the United States by virtue of an act dated July 2,1864, on the line of its railroad to certain lands. There is set forth therein all the acts required of plaintiff in order to designate and vest in plaintiff the title to the lands granted by said act; that the land hereinafter named was, at the date of said grant, and at the date it fixed the general route of its railroad, public land belonging to the United States, free from any claims or rights whatever, and agricultural land; that the land herein…