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ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILROAD v. MINGUS

No. 100.

165 U.S. 413 (1897)

ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. MINGUS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 15, 1897.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E.J. Phelps and Mr. A.B. Browne, (with whom was Mr. A.T. Britton on the brief,) for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Dickinson for the United States. Mr. Joseph H. Call filed a brief for same.

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

While the value of the land involved in this case is small, the question at issue between the parties affects the validity of the entire land grant of the company adjacent to and coterminous with all that part of the main line of the road not completed on July 6, 1886. The case turns wholly upon the validity of the act of that date, forfeiting...

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