Cherokee Nation v. Southern Kansas Railway Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas. The litigation between the parties arises out of an act of Congress, approved July 4, 1884, entitled “ An act to grant the right of way through the Indian Territory to the Southern Kansas Railway Company, and for other- purposes.” 23 Stat. 73. By the first section of that act the above company was authorized to locate, construct, operate and maintain a railway, telegraph and telephone line, through the Indian Territory, beginning at a point on the northern line of the Territory,…