United States v. Central Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This was an action by the United States against the Central Pacific Railroad Company, to recover five per cent of the net earnings of the railroad belonging to said company, from the sixteenth day of July, 1869, the date at which it is alleged that the said railroad was completed, to the thirty-first day of October, 1874. The road extends from the termination of the Union Pacific Railroad, at or near Ogden in the Territory of Utah, to the waters of the Pacific; and was constructed under the provisions of the Pacific Railroad Act of July 1, 1862, and the several acts supplementary thereto. It…
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