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WINONA & ST. PETER LAND COMPANY v. MINNESOTA

No. 38.

159 U.S. 540 (1895)

WINONA & ST. PETER LAND COMPANY v. MINNESOTA (No. 2).

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 11, 1895.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James A. Tawney for plaintiff in error.

Mr. H.W. Childs, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, for defendant in error. Mr. George B. Edgerton was on his brief.

Mr. John Lind filed a brief for defendant in error on behalf of Brown County.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is similar to the one between the same parties just decided, in that the questions presented to the state courts involved the taxability of lands included in the legislative grants of May 22, 1857, and March 10, 1862, the Barney contract of October 31, 1867, and the decree in the United States Circuit Court of March 7, 1887. The tax proceedings were under the law of 1881, but were had in the county of...

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