Payne v. Central Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF. COLUMBIA. The case is stated in the opinion. Until approval by the Secretary of the Interior no rights as against the United States are acquired under an indemnity selection list. Sioux City & St. Paul R. R. Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co., 117 U. S. 406, 408; Wisconsin Central R. R. Co. v. Price County, 133 U. S. 496, 511, 512, 513; United States v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF. COLUMBIA. The case is stated in the opinion. Until approval by the Secretary of the Interior no rights as against the United States are acquired under an indemnity selection list. Sioux City & St. Paul R. R. Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co., 117 U. S. 406, 408; Wisconsin Central R. R. Co. v. Price County, 133 U. S. 496, 511, 512, 513; United States v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry. Co., 141 U. S. 358, 374, 375; New Orleans Pacific Ry. Co. v. Parker, 143 U. S. 42, 57, 58; Osborn v. Froyseth, 216 U. S. 571, 577; Northern Pacific Ry.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This is a suit to enjoin the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office from canceling a selection of indemnity lands under a railroad land grant. The trial court dismissed the bill and the Court of Appeals reversed that decree and directed that an injunction issue. 46 App. D. C. 374. An appeal under § 250, par. 6, of the Judicial Code brings the case here.
The allegations of the bill were admitted by a motion to dismiss, upon which the defendants announced their purpose to stand ¡land the case as thus made is as’follows:.
By the Act'-of July 25,1866, c. 242,14…
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