United States v. New Orleans Pac. Ry. Co. (Three Cases)
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The cases are stated in the opinion. The United States has the capacity to maintain these suits because of its obligation to the interveners and its duty to the public. The effect of the Act of February 8, 1887, was to reserve from the grant and except from the railroad patents the lands in question for the benefit of the interveners.
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APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The cases are stated in the opinion. The United States has the capacity to maintain these suits because of its obligation to the interveners and its duty to the public. The effect of the Act of February 8, 1887, was to reserve from the grant and except from the railroad patents the lands in question for the benefit of the interveners. The suits are not barred by limitation, because: (a) The suits are to establish title by enforcing an exception rather than to vacate or annul patents. (6) The lands are not claimed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devantek
These suits are so related, that they may be disposed of in a single opinion. Three tracts of land in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, each containing one hundred sixty acres, are in controversy — one in each suit. All are in odd-numbered sections within the limits of the grant of March 3,1871, to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company, c. 122, 16 Stat. 573, — one being within the primary and two within the indemnity limits. All were patented under the grant and afterwards sold by the patentee, the purchasers paying a fair price. Through successive sales the title under the…
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