Los Angeles & Salt Lake R. v. United States

MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company,1 a Utah corporation doing business in California, executed and delivered to appellee, the United States, two deeds — one, hereafter called the 1908 deed, dated July 3, 1908, and one, hereafter called the 1918 deed, dated December 13, 1918. In 1941 a controversy arose between appellant and appellee with respect to appellee’s rights under the deeds. To settle the controversy, appellee brought an action against appellant under § 274d of the Judicial Code, 28 U.S.C.A. § 400, and obtained a declaratory judgment therein.…