Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Concannon
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP WASHINGTON. The facts, which involve the construction of acts of. Congress relating to the right of way of the Northern Pacific Railway, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
As the successor to the rights of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company the Railway Company, plaintiff in error, sued to recover a piece of land alleged to be within the strip 400 feet wide granted by the act of Congress of July 2, 1864, to the former company as a right of way. (13 Stat. 365, c. 217.) The asserted right to a reversal of the decree which awarded the land to the defendant is based upon an error which it. is asserted the court committed in interpreting an act of Congress. (April 28, 1904, 33 Stat. 538, c. 1782.)
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