Legal Opinion
Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company v. Secretary of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 9, 1987No. 84-5440PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III.
SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:
The Department of the Interior denied an application by Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company (Santa Fe) for a patent covering 14,632.72 acres of land in Arizona. 1 This ruling was upheld by the District Court 2 and Santa Fe appeals. We find that the Department and the District Court misconstrued a provision of a 1955 statute known as the Recordation Act, 3 which required the registration of certain unperfected rights to land. We accordingly reverse.
I. Background
In order to “secure…
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