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PRENTICE v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD

No. 319.

154 U.S. 163 (1894)

PRENTICE v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Elihu Root, (with whom were Mr. John F. Dillon and Mr. Samuel B. Clarke on the brief,) for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William W. Billson, for Fargusson, defendant in error, submitted on his brief.

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

The court below correctly interpreted the decision in Prentice v. Stearns, 113 U.S. 435, as holding that the deed from Armstrong to Prentice, under which alone the latter can assert a title to the land in controversy, was an instrument designed to convey a defined tract or parcel of land, not any possible...

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