Winona & St. Peter Railroad v. Barney
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL EEOM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE . DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. On the 3d of March, 1857, Congress - passed an act, 11 Stat. 195, making a grant of lands to the Territory of .Minnesota to aid in the construction of certain railroads, with their branches, and, among others, a railroad from Winona, a town on the Mississippi River, via St. Peter, to a point on the Rig Sioux River, south of the 45th parallel of north latitude, which is in the present…
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APPEAL EEOM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE . DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. On the 3d of March, 1857, Congress - passed an act, 11 Stat. 195, making a grant of lands to the Territory of .Minnesota to aid in the construction of certain railroads, with their branches, and, among others, a railroad from Winona, a town on the Mississippi River, via St. Peter, to a point on the Rig Sioux River, south of the 45th parallel of north latitude, which is in the present Territory of Dakota. The language of the act is, “ That there be, and is hereby, granted to the Territory . . . every alternate…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
He stated the facts in .the foregoing language, and continued:
Two questions .are presented for our consideration by the appeal in this case. The first relates to the deficiencies in the sections designated as granted in the act of 1857, arising from sales and the attachment of preemption rights previous to the final determination of the route of the road of the railway company, and the extent to which indemnity, for these deficiencies may be supplied from other lands. The second relates to the reser vation from the operation of the act of 1865 of lands previously granted to Minnesota to aid…
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