DESERET SALT COMPANY v. TARPEY

No. 96.

142 U.S. 241 (1891)

DESERET SALT COMPANY v. TARPEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 21, 1891.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Parley L. Williams for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Attorney General and Mr. John B. Cotton for defendant in error.


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

The only questions which appear in this case to have elicited much discussion in the court below, relate to the title of the Central Pacific Railroad Company to the lands granted by the acts of Congress of July 1, 1862, and July 2, 1864, upon the filing of a map of the definite location of its contemplated road with the Secretary of the Interior...

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