Ard v. Brandon
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP KANSAS. These two cases may be considered together, for the initial fact in defendant now plaintiff-in-error’s claim of fight is the same in each case.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP KANSAS. These two cases may be considered together, for the initial fact in defendant now plaintiff-in-error’s claim of fight is the same in each case. The actions were commenced by the respective defendants in error as plaintiffs in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the first, to recover the possession of the north half of the northeast quarter of section 11, township 2C, range 20, and the other to recover possession of the west half of the southeast quarter of section 2, township 26, range 20. These two tracts, each of 80 acres, adjoin,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
As these lands were not within the place limits of either the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad or the Missouri, Kansas and Texas.Railway, and as they were within the indemnity limits of both roads, it is not open to question that the certification by the Land Department to the State of Kansas and the conveyance by it to the railway company of the one tract, and the patent directly from the United States of the other, operated to transfer the legal title to these two tracts to the railway company; and also that the United States has no cause of action against the railway company or…
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