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UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. v. McALPINE

No. 128.

129 U.S. 305 (1889)

UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. McALPINE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 28, 1889.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.M. Wilson for appellant. Mr. J.P. Usher, Mr. John F. Dillon and Mr. A.L. Williams filed briefs for same.

Mr. William M. Springer and Mr. James M. Mason (with whom was Mr. John W. Day on the brief) for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. It is a suit for the specific performance of a contract for the exchange of lands in the State of Kansas between Maria W. McAlpine, one of the complainants below and appellees here, and the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, alleged to have been made in 1878, her contention being that...

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