Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This is a suit by the United States to enjoin a railroad company from constructing or operating its railroad through a national forest reserve in Idaho unless it executes and files with the Secretary of the Interior a stipulation required by that officer, and to obtain damages for timber cut and destroyed and injury done in the course of the construction and operation of such railroad. In the District Court, 207 Fed. Rep. 164, and in the Circuit Court of Appeals, 218 Fed. Rep. 288, the Government prevailed. The railroad company prosecutes this appeal.
The forest reserve had its inception in an…
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