Great Northern Railway Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case, as found by the court: I. The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company was aided in its construction with lands granted by the United States under the acts of March 3, 1857, and March 3, 1865 (11 Stat. L., 195, and 13 Stat. L., 526). That part of the road so aided in its construction, extending from University Switch to the Union Depot at Minneapolis, is 3.163 miles., The Minneapolis…
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The Reporters’’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case, as found by the court: I. The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company was aided in its construction with lands granted by the United States under the acts of March 3, 1857, and March 3, 1865 (11 Stat. L., 195, and 13 Stat. L., 526). That part of the road so aided in its construction, extending from University Switch to the Union Depot at Minneapolis, is 3.163 miles., The Minneapolis Union Railway Company's road between St. Paul and Minneapolis; via University Switch, was constructed without the aid of…
1Opinion of the Court
AtkiNSON, J.,
delivered, the opinion of the court:
The plaintiff company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, operates and has operated as lessee for more than twenty years the roadway of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company, which road was aided in its .construction by lands granted therefor by the United States to the State of Minnesota upon the conditions set forth in the granting acts of March 3, 1857, and March 3, 18G5 (11 Stat. L., 195, and 13 Stat. L., 526).
That part of the road so aided, extending from University Switch to the Minneapolis…
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