United States v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion, post, 58. No rights to lands within the indemnity limits attach until an application to select is filed.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion, post, 58. No rights to lands within the indemnity limits attach until an application to select is filed. Ryan v. Railroad Co., 99 U. S. 382, 386; St. Paul & Sioux City R. R. Co. v. Winona & St. Peter R. R. Co., 112 U. S. 720, 731; Oregon & California R. R. Co. v. United States, No. 1, 189 U. S. 103, 112, 113; Osborn v. Froyseth, 216 U. S. 571, 577, 578; United States v. Southern Pacific R. R. Co., 223 U. S. 565, 570, 571. As the lands involved were at the date of filing of the selection list…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This is a suit by the United States to cancel a patent issued to the railway company for 5,681.76 acres of land in Montana, the asserted ground for such relief being that the land officers issued thé patent* through inadvertence and mistake. The company prevailed in the District Court and in the Circuit Court of Appeals, 264 Fed. Rep. 898, and the United States brought the case here.
The lands in question ¿re within the indemnity limits of the land grant made to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company by the Act of July 2, 1864, c. 217, 13 Stat. 365, as modified and supplemented by the joint…
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