United States v. Southern Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve rights of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company under its Main' Line Grant to lands within the overlap of the primary limits of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company land grant, are stated in the opinión.
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APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve rights of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company under its Main' Line Grant to lands within the overlap of the primary limits of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company land grant, are stated in the opinión. As to No. 128, the Southern Pacific is not entitled to select, as being within the indemnity provisions of its Main Line Grant made by the act of July 27, 1866, any lands which were subject to the primary provisions of the Atlantic and Pacific grant (made by the same act). This question is really…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
delivered' the opinion of the court.
This is a bill brought by the United States to quiet title and cancel patents, and for an .accounting, as to lands lying within the indemnity limits of the grant made to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company by the act of July 27, 1866, c. 278, § 18, 14 Stat. 292, known as the Main Line Grant, and within the primary limits of the grant made to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company by § 3 of the same act. The Atlantic and Pacific road forfeited its grant, (act of July 6, 1886, c. 637, 24 Stat. 123), and thereafter the Southern Pacific' selected the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Southern Pacific Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Dowell v. ApplegateSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Ryan v. Railroad Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Southern Pacific Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- United States v. California and Oregon Land Company; California and Oregon Land Company v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
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- Krug v. Santa Fe Pac. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1946
- Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. LaneCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1917
- Santa Fe Pac. R. v. WorkDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1924
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