Minnesota Land & Investment Co. v. Davis

This is an action in ejectment. The plaintiff demurred to one of the defences set forth in the answer, and from an order overruling the demurrer the appeal is taken. The part of the answer demurred to assumes to set forth the facts through which the title claimed by plaintiff was derived from the United States, and the defendant claims that such facts show that no title passed to the railroad company, under which plaintiff claims title. The answer alleges that the land in question is within the ten-mile limit of the grant by congress to aid in the construction of that line of railroad now…