St. Paul S. & T. F. Ry. Co. v. Sage
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Bill originally brought by the Hastings & Dakota Railway Company against the Stillwater & Taylor’s Falls Railway Company to recover certain lands, or to have an accounting for the money realized therefrom. Russell Sage, having purchased all the title and interest of complainant since the commencement of the suit, was substituted as plaintiff. Decree for complainant, (32 Fed.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Bill originally brought by the Hastings & Dakota Railway Company against the Stillwater & Taylor’s Falls Railway Company to recover certain lands, or to have an accounting for the money realized therefrom. Russell Sage, having purchased all the title and interest of complainant since the commencement of the suit, was substituted as plaintiff. Decree for complainant, (32 Fed. Rep. 821,) which was affirmed on rehearing, (44 Fed. Rep. 817.) Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Shiras, District Judge.
By an act of congress, approved March 3, 1857, there was granted to the then territory of Minnesota, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a line of railway from Stillwater, by way of St. Paul and St. Anthony, to a point between the foot of Big Stone lake and the mouth of Sioux Wood river, with a branch by way of St. Cloud and Crow Wing to the Red River of the North, every *316alternate section .of land designated by odd numbers for six sections on each side of said named lines of railroad; it being further provided that if it should appear, when said lines of…
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