UNITED STATES v. GETTYSBURG ELECTRIC R'Y.

Nos. 599, 629.

160 U.S. 668 (1896)

UNITED STATES v. GETTYSBURG ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY. SAME v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 27, 1896.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Attorney General for the United States.

Mr. Thomas Hart, Jr., for the Gettysburg Electric Railway Company. Mr. Charles Heebner was with him on the brief.


MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The really important question to be determined in these proceedings is, whether the use to which the petitioner desires to put the land described in the petitions is of that kind of public use for which the government of the United States is authorized to condemn land.

It has authority to do so whenever it is necessary or appropriate...

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