Courtright v. Cedar Rapids & Missouri River R. R.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court. This is an action at law to recover certain lands in the counties of Woodbury and Manona. There was a trial to the court without a jury and a judgment for plaintiff. Defendants appeal. The facts of the case are fully set out in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Ch. J.
The title to the lands involved in this suit rests upon and involves construction of certain acts of congress and of the General Assembly of this State. The lands themselves are a part of the congressional grant to the State, of May 15, 1856, to aid in the construction of a railroad from Lyons north-easterly to the line of the Iowa Central Air Line Railroad and thence to the Missouri river. The plaintiff claims under the Iowa Central Air Line R. R. Co., an incorporation which, he alleges, succeeded to all the rights of the State to the lands in question under a legislative grant.…
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