Stuart v. Union Pac. R.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. Bill by Thomas B. Stuart and Charles A. Murray against the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Decree for defendant, and complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
According to the bill of complaint, this is a suit to quiet in the appellants, as against the appellee, the title to an entire tract of land containing 160 acres and located in the vicinity of Denver, Colo.; but it otherwise appears that what really is in controversy is only so much of this tract as is within a claimed railroad right of way across the same.
In .addition to other matters not necessary to be stated here, the bill alleges that the full ownership, possession, and right of possession of the entire tract are in the appellants; that their title is founded…
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