ST. PAUL & PACIFIC RAILROAD v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD

No. 54.

139 U.S. 1 (1891)

ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1891.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. S.U. Pinney and Mr. George B. Young, for appellants.

Mr. James McNaught and Mr. A.H. Garland, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

The bill in this case was filed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to establish its right to land in odd-numbered sections, amounting to many thousand acres, situated in the neighborhood of Glyndon, in Minnesota, which it claims under a grant of the United States, made by the act of Congress of July 2, 1864, to "aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line...

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