Utah & Northern Railway Co. v. Fisher
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from District Court, Oneida County. On behalf of the appellant we submit this case upon the authority of Harkness v. Hyde, 98 U. S. 476. The court is familiar with the origin and history of that case, as well as the principles laid down in the decisions.
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APPEAL from District Court, Oneida County. On behalf of the appellant we submit this case upon the authority of Harkness v. Hyde, 98 U. S. 476. The court is familiar with the origin and history of that case, as well as the principles laid down in the decisions. We submit that if the process of the district court of the third judicial district in and for Oneida county cannot run upon the Fort Hall Indian reservation, as was held in that ease, for the same reason the taxing power of neither the county of Oneida nor the territory can extend to property situated within its limits. On behalf of…
1Opinion of the CourtPrickett, J.
This appeal has been submitted-upon briefs, without oral argument. The facts as shown by the record are that the Utah and Northern Eailway Company is a-corporation awning and operating the Utah and Northern Eailway, extending into and through the county of Oneida in this territory; that sixty-nine and eighteen one-hundrédths miles of said railway is within and upon the Fort Hall Indian reservation, a tract of land situated within the exterior boundaries of said Oneida county, but which, by an order of the President of the United States, dated July 30, 1869, in pursuance of a treaty with the…
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