United States v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

The cause brought heré by these appeals involves the correlative rights of the United States and the Northern Pacific Railway Company arising out of the land grants in aid of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.

By an Act of July 2, 1864, 1 designated persons were created a body corporate, Northern Pacific Railroad Company, which was authorized and empowered to lay out, locate, construct, and maintain a continuous railroad and telegraph fine from a point on Lake Superior to Puget Sound, with a branch via the valley of the Columbia River, to- a point at or near Portland, Oregon; (§ 1.)

The Act…