Lyle v. Patterson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal front the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Iowa. Suit in equity by Eoscoe Lyle against George M. Patterson and others. Decree for defendants (ICO Fed. 545), and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WM. H. MUNGER, District Judge.
This case was tried in the court below upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that on May 12, 1864, Congress passed an act (Act May 12, 1864, c. 84, 13 Stat. 72) granting lands to the state of Iowa, to aid in the construction of a railroad, from Sioux City in said state to the south line of the state of Minnesota, at such point as the said state of Iowa may select between the Big Sioux and the west fork of the Des Moines river, also, to said state for the use and benefit of the McGregor Western Railroad Compan)' for the purpose of aiding in the…
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