Adams County v. Burlington & Missouri Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
IN .error to the supreme court OF IOWA. Suit, in equity. The facts which make the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. .Chief Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit in equity brought by Adams County, Iowa, the plaintiff in error, on the 23d of December, 1869, against the Burlington and Missouri River' Railroad Company, in a State court of Iowa, to quiet its title to sixty-six forty-acre lots of land. The county asserts title'under the swamp-land act of September 28, 1850, 9 Stat. 519, ch. 84, and the railroad company under the Iowa land-grant act of May 15, 1856, 11 Stat.- 9, ch. 28. The company, in its answer, denied the title of the county, bn the ground that the lands were not…
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