St. Paul, M. & M. R. v. Greenhalgh

These causes are so nearly alike that they may be considered together. The complainant claims to be the equitable owner of certain lands, the legal title to which is in defendants, and filed these bills to enforce such claim. Both tracks lie along the line of the St. Vincent extension of complainant’s railway, and north of the indemnity limits of the Northern Pacific road. The definite location of this line was made in 1871, and a map thereof filed with *564the secretary of the interior, and approved December 20,1871. The Greenhalgh land is within ten miles of this line, and the Wenzel tract…