St. Paul, M. & M. Ry. Co. v. Sage
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree which dismissed a bill brought by the St. Baúl, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company to establish its equitable title to, and to obtain a conveyance of, about 26,000 acres of land in the state of Minnesota, the legal title to which is held by Russell Sage, the appellee, as trustee. The title of the appellee is derived from the act of congress of July 4,1866 (14 Stat. 87), by which there was granted to the state of Minnesota, for a railroad from Hastings, through the counties of Dakota, Scott, Carver, and McLeod, to such point on the…
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