Northern Pac. R. v. Sanders

The motion for a rehearing in this case by consent was granted, and upon the point as to whether the alternate odd sections of land, non-mineral, to which the government of the United States had full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from pre-emption or other claims or rights, at the time the general route of plaintiff’s road was fixed, to the width of 40 miles on each side of the said general route in Montarla, by virtue of section 6 of the act in -which is found the grant of land to plaintiff, was reserved from sale, entry, or pre-emption, was reargued.…