Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS.FOR t THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction and validity of patents for land issued to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company under the Land Grant Act of July 27,1866, and the effect of provisions in the patents as to the effect of subsequent discovery of minerals, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
In 1910 Edmund Burke filed a bill in equity in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of California, against the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the Kern Trading and Oil Company, and several individuals, wherein he sought a decree establishing certain rights claimed by him in five sections of land in Fresno County, California, and enjoining the defendants from asserting any right or interest therein. A cross-bill was filed by J. I. Lamprecht and other individual defendants, and the two corporate defendants demurred to both bills. The demurrers were sustained and a…
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