Oregon & California Railroad v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This was a bill in equity filed by the United States, in the Circuit Court for the District of Oregon, to compel a reconvey-anee by the railroad company, as the successor and assignee of the Oregon Central Eailroad Company, of certain lands within the indemnity limits of the land grant to such company of July 25, 1866, 14 Stat. 239, for which land one John W. Hines, on November 22, 1853, seventeen" years before…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This was a bill in equity filed by the United States, in the Circuit Court for the District of Oregon, to compel a reconvey-anee by the railroad company, as the successor and assignee of the Oregon Central Eailroad Company, of certain lands within the indemnity limits of the land grant to such company of July 25, 1866, 14 Stat. 239, for which land one John W. Hines, on November 22, 1853, seventeen" years before the definite location of the line of the road, had filed a donation notification under the Oregon Donation Act of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case is . similar to two recent cases bearing the same title, in the first one of which, 189 U. S. 103, a patent of certain lands within the indemnity limits of the same road, dated February 20, 1893, was cancelled in favor of certain entrymen under the homestead laws of the United States, who had settled upon these lands at sundry dates from 1869 to 1890, and before the. defendant eompany bad selected the lands in question as indemnity lands or had received a patent. The court found that “ when the company’s lists were approved neither the Commissioner nor the Secretary had-any…
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