Cal. N. R.R. v. Gould
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fifteenth Judicial District. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. Defendant had judgment in the Court below and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
Field, C. J. and Cope, J. concurring.
The complaint in this action sets forth that the plaintiff has taken the requisite steps to acquire the right of way for its road over certain premises therein described under the Act of Congress of August, 1852, which gives such right over the public lands; that the premises are public lands, unsurveyed and not held for public use by erections or improvements thereon, and that by virtue of said Act of Congress the United States have granted to the plaintiff the use of said premises for the track of its railroad; that the defendant is in the actual…
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