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ADAMS COUNTY v. BURLINGTON & MO. RR. CO.

112 U.S. 123 (1884)

ADAMS COUNTY v. BURLINGTON & MISSOURI RAILROAD CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 3, 1884.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George G. Wright and Mr. F.M. Davis argued for plaintiff in error.

Mr. T.M. Stuart, Mr. Samuel Shellabarger and Mr. J.M. Wilson, for defendants in error, submitted on their briefs.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit in equity brought by Adams County, Iowa, the plaintiff in error, on the 23d of December, 1869, against the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, in a State court of Iowa, to quiet its title to sixty-six forty-acre lots of land. The county asserts title under the swamp-land act of September 28, 1850, 9 Stat. 519, ch. 84, and the railroad company under the Iowa land-grant act of May...

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