Telluride Power Transmission Co. v. Rio Grande Western Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF UTAH. This was a suit brought by the Rio Graude Western Railway Company, a corporation of Utah, in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of Utah, against the Telluride Power Transmission Company and two individual defendants, named Nunn and Holbrook, to confirm and quiet the title of the plaintiff company to certain unsurveyed .public lands of the'United States in the county and State of Utah.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF UTAH. This was a suit brought by the Rio Graude Western Railway Company, a corporation of Utah, in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of Utah, against the Telluride Power Transmission Company and two individual defendants, named Nunn and Holbrook, to confirm and quiet the title of the plaintiff company to certain unsurveyed .public lands of the'United States in the county and State of Utah. The bill of complaint-was filed September 12, 1896, and set •forth that the railway company was authorized to construct and operate a railway in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
1. The question of the removal of the. case to the Federal court may be disposed of without difficulty. The facts are that, on January 21, 1898, four months after the case was argued in the Supreme Court, and six weeks after it was decided, there was filed in the Supreme Court of Utah a supple-mental transcript containing the original petition for. removal to the Circuit Court, the bond of the petitioners, the order of the court denying the petition, and a protest of the defendants against the further exercise of jurisdiction by the state court. But it does not appear how this supplemental…
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