HASTINGS ETC. RAILROAD CO. v. WHITNEY

No. 49.

132 U.S. 357 (1889)

HASTINGS AND DAKOTA RAILROAD COMPANY v. WHITNEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 9, 1889.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gordon E. Cole for plaintiff in error.

No appearance for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE LAMAR delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action, somewhat in the nature of a suit in equity, originally brought in the District Court of Ramsey County, Minnesota, by the Hastings and Dakota Railroad Company, (a corporation organized under the laws of that State,) against Julia D. and John Whitney, to recover a tract of about eighty acres of land situated in that county, for which the defendants have a United States patent.

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