Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT. OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the Northern Pacific Land Grant Acts, are stated, in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
Conflicting claims to forty acres of land in the State of Minnesota is the controversy which this case involves. Both parties assert title derived from the United States, the appellants in virtue of a patent issued under a land grant made to the Northern. Pacific Railroad Company and the appellees as the result of an alleged purchase under the timber and stone act. The facts ar.e these:
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 1883 filed in the Land Department a list of indemnity selections which embraced the land in question. In 1893 a rearranged list was filed, differing from the previous…
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