United States v. Union Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT .COURT OP fHE UNITED STATES POR THE DISTRICT OP COLORADO. This case arose upon demurrers and a plea to a bill in equity filed by the United States against the Union Pacific Railway Company, and 113 other corporations and individuals, to procure the surrender and cancellation of certain land patents issued to the Kansas Pacific Railway and the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, and for a decree declaring all conveyances of such lands clouds…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT .COURT OP fHE UNITED STATES POR THE DISTRICT OP COLORADO. This case arose upon demurrers and a plea to a bill in equity filed by the United States against the Union Pacific Railway Company, and 113 other corporations and individuals, to procure the surrender and cancellation of certain land patents issued to the Kansas Pacific Railway and the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, and for a decree declaring all conveyances of such lands clouds upon the title of the United States. The bill averred in substance that, by an act of Congress of July 1, 1862, 12 Stat.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bbown
The object of this bill is to procure the surrender and cancellation of certain patents issued for a triangular tract of land of about 200,000 acres iii extent, lying upon the outside of the right angle, or elbow, made by the junction at Denver of the Nansas Pacific Railway, whose general course is east and west, with the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, whose general course is north and south. These roads are now consolidated under the name of the Union Pacific Railway Company.
By the Original act of July 1, 1862, incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad Company, 12 Stat. 189, c.…
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