Foster v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe grounds of tbe defendants’ demurrer are stated in the opinion of tbe court. Tbe various laws which relate to tbe disposition of tbe public domain form a comprehensive system, in' which it is impossible to touch upon any branch without in some wise affecting the whole system.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe grounds of tbe defendants’ demurrer are stated in the opinion of tbe court. Tbe various laws which relate to tbe disposition of tbe public domain form a comprehensive system, in' which it is impossible to touch upon any branch without in some wise affecting the whole system. The administration of these affairs has, by the Congress, been delegated to the Interior Department, from which has emanated nearly all the laws that have been passed in relation to the subject. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, so far as possible, to confine all…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, Ob. J.,
delivered tbe opinion of (¡be court:
The petition in this case alleges that in December, 1886, tbe claimant entered a quarter of a section of land in tbe State of Oregon and within tbe boundaries of a grant to tbe Northern Pacific Eailroad Company ; that be paid $2.50 per acre for tbe land contained in his entry; that it was part of an even section raised in price to the double minimum by reason of the railroad land grant; that tbe railroad company never definitely fixed tbe line of tbe road as required by tbe statute authorizing tbe grant, or file a plat thereof, or construct tbe…
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