Cathcart v. Minnesota & Manitoba Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Beltrami county to set aside the map of definite location of defendant railroad through plaintiffs homestead, claim, to declare defendant company trustee of the title to the land and to require a conveyance of the title to plaintiff. From an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
The land here involved is in Beltrami county adjacent to the Rainy river, and was part of the Red Lake Indian reservation. An act of Congress of January 14, 1889, known as the Nelson Act, provided for a commission to negotiate for the cession and relinquishment to the United States of so much of the Red Lake reservation as in the judgment of the commission should not be required for allotments under previous acts. The cession was to be for the purposes and upon the terms therein stated. 'The ceded lands were to be divided into two classes, one class consisting of pine lands, to be sold at…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Minnesota v. HitchcockSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- United States v. MooreSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Bates v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Hastings & Dakota Railroad v. WhitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Logan v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
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