United States v. Southern Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This is a continuation of the case which was before this court and decided in 1897. 168 TJ. S. 1. It was brought to quiet the title of the Government to some seven hundred thousand acres of land within the limits of the forfeited grant to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, and claimed by the defendants under certain junior grants to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This is a continuation of the case which was before this court and decided in 1897. 168 TJ. S. 1. It was brought to quiet the title of the Government to some seven hundred thousand acres of land within the limits of the forfeited grant to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, and claimed by the defendants under certain junior grants to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The decree in the Circuit Court quieted, as against the Southern Pacific Company, the title of the Government to all the lands. The other defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The questions now to be determined arise between the United States and.parties holding title or claiming rights to lands by deed from or contract with the railroad company. The title of the company having been adjudged void, the defendants rely upon the acts of Congress of March 3, 1887, c. 376, 24 Stat. 556, and February 12, 1896, c. 18, 29 Stat. 6, and March 2, 1896, c. 39, 29 Stat. 42. These acts were passed for the purpose of upholding the titles of parties who in good faith had purchased from railroad companies lands, which though supposed to be part of their grants, proved not to be so.…
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