BARDEN v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD

No. 612.

154 U.S. 288 (1894)

BARDEN v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General, with whom was Mr. W.W. Dixon, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Edwin W. Toole and Mr. William Wallace, Jr., filed a brief for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Martin F. Morris and Mr. W.W. Dixon filed a brief for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Shields filed briefs for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. James McNaught and Mr. A.H. Garland filed briefs for defendant in error.

Mr. A.T. Britton, Mr. A.T. Browne and Mr. George R. Peck, by leave of court, filed a brief on the part of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company.

Mr. James C. Carter for defendant in error.


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

This action is brought for the possession of certain parcels or lots of mineral land claimed by the plaintiff below — the defendant in error here — as embraced in the grant of the United States of July 2, 1864. The facts constituting the claim of the plaintiff are set forth at length in the...

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