Legal Opinion
Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 10, 1958No. 59PublishedCited by 1,642 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
In 1864 and 1870 Congress granted the predecessor of the Northern Pacific Railway Company approximately forty million acres of land in several Northwestern States and Territories to facilitate its construction of a railroad *3line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound.1 In general terms, this grant consisted of every alternate section of land in a belt 20 miles wide on each side of the track through States and 40 miles wide through Territories. The granted lands were of various kinds; some contained great stands of timber, some iron ore or other valuable mineral deposits, some oil or natural gas,…
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