Denver & R. G. R. Co. v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado
Error from district court, district of Colorado; Haijjctt, Judge. Tlie United States, plaintiff, sued the Denver & Rio Grand Railroad Company and others, defendants, in two suits, for cutting timber illegally on the public lands. Judgments for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. Doth suits were consolidated.
1Opinion of the CourtBheweR, C. J.
These two cases come here on errror from the district court, judgments having boon rendered there in favor of the United States and against the plaintiff in error, for the full amounts claimed. Each case was tried on an agreed statement of facts. On June 8, 1872, congress passed an act making a grant to the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company. 17 U. S. St. at Large, 339. The material portion of that grant is as follows:
“That the right of way over the public domain, one hundred feet in width on each side of the track, together with such public lands adjacent thereto as may be needed for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. Burlington & Missouri River R. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1879
3Cited by7 opinions
- Stone v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1894
- Denver & R. G. R. Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1903
- Sun Lumber Co. v. Nelson Fuel Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1921
- United States v. Price Trading Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1901
- United States v. Denver & R. G. R.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado · 1911
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