Barney v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FEOM THE CIKCUIT COUET OP THE UNITED STATES POE-THE DISTBICT OP MINNESOTA. This case was before the court at October Term, 1884, 113 IT. S. 618. The questions which arose in the execution of .the mandate, and which were brought up by the second appeal, are stated in the opinion of (the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice' Field
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case was before us at the October Term, 1884. By an act of Congress passed March 3, 1857, a grant of land . was made to Minnesota, then a Territory, to aid in the construction of certain railroads, including -one from Winona, a town on the Mississippi River, to a point on tbe Big Sioux River, in the present Territory of Dakota. 11 Stat. 195. The grant was of every alternate section designated by odd numbers, for sjx sections in width on each side of the road, subject to certain exceptions, not important to be here mentioned, with a…
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