Legal Opinion

Santa Fe Pacific Railroad v. Lane

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 11, 1917No. 170PublishedCited by 18 opinions

APPEAR EROM THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP' COLUMBIA. The'case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter

This is a suit to enjoin the Secretary of the Interior from insisting upon or giving effect to a demand heretofore made by him on the plaintiff to the effect that the latter make an advance deposit, under the Act of June 25,1910, c. 406, 36 Stat. 834, of $5,500 to cover the cost of surveying certain lands within the primary limits of the land grant made by the Act of July 27, 1866, c. 278, 14 Stat. 292, to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, to whose rights the plaintiff has .succeeded. The court of first instance refused the injunction and dismissed the bill, and its action was…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Northern Pacific Railroad v. Traill CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1885
  2. Atlantic & Pacific Railroad v. MingusSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  3. New Orleans Pacific Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1888

3Cited by18 opinions

  1. United States v. Santa Fe Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  2. State v. BeatyArizona Supreme Court · 1988
  3. Morrison v. WorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
  4. Waite v. MacYSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
  5. United States v. WyomingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947

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