Santa Fe Pac. R. v. Work

VAN ORSDEE, Associate Justice.

Appellant railway company, plaintiff below, filed its bill in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, praying an injunction to restrain defendant, the Secretary of the Interior, from canceling a selection of public land made by it in lieu of land relinquished from the original grant made by the government. From a decree sustaining defendant’s motion to dismiss, discharging the rule to show cause, and dismissing plaintiff’s bill, this appeal was taken.

By the Act of July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 292, a grant of land was made by the United States to aid in the…