Humbird v. Avery
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM AND ORDER TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This case was brought before us upon questions certified by the Circuit Court, of Appeals. Subsequently, the United' States was allowed to intervene upon the general ground that the case involved important questions affecting the administration of the public land laws, including the grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad -Company ■ then, in process of adjustment.
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CERTIFICATE FROM AND ORDER TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This case was brought before us upon questions certified by the Circuit Court, of Appeals. Subsequently, the United' States was allowed to intervene upon the general ground that the case involved important questions affecting the administration of the public land laws, including the grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad -Company ■ then, in process of adjustment. And, on motion of' the Government, the plaintiffs and defendants concurring, the whole record was ordered to be sent up for our consideration. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
It is appropriate.at the outset to refer to certain allegations of the bill which bring the determination of the case within a very narrow compass and make it unnecessary to. consider some matters referred to by counsel. After setting out in detail the various steps' taken by the railroad company to acquire a right to the lands in dispute, the bill alleges that "but for the vested rights” of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and its grantees the several tracts of land in question would have been unappropriated public lands open to the several kinds of entries or location made with respect…
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