Railway Co. v. Alling
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeals from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. These causes involve the conflicting claims of two railroad corporations — the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company and the Cañón City and San Juan Railway Company — to occupy and use the Grand or Big Canon of the Arkansas for railroad purposes. For tbe sake of brevity, tbe former will be hereafter designated as tbe Denver Company, and the latter as the Canon City Company.
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Appeals from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. These causes involve the conflicting claims of two railroad corporations — the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company and the Cañón City and San Juan Railway Company — to occupy and use the Grand or Big Canon of the Arkansas for railroad purposes. For tbe sake of brevity, tbe former will be hereafter designated as tbe Denver Company, and the latter as the Canon City Company. Tbe Denver Company was incorporated in tbe year 1870, in conformity to the laws of tbe then Territory of Colorado. Its object, expressed in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
A preliminary question, presented for our consideration, must be first disposed of.
These causes were determined in the Circuit Court, by final decree, Aug. 24, 1878. Upon stipulation between the parties they were submitted here on the 10th of January last. On the 20th of January it was represented to this court, in proper form, that the Pueblo and Arkansas Valley Railroad Company owned a railroad which, with its branches and extensions, is a continuation, in Colorado, of the line of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad Company in Kansas; that certain contracts and arrangements had,…
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