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UNITED STATES v. NORTHERN PACIFIC R.R. CO.

No. 145.

193 U.S. 1 (1904)

UNITED STATES v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1904.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles W. Russell, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the United States.

Mr. Charles W. Bunn for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

By the act of Congress of July 2, 1864, 13 Stat. 365, c. 217, a grant was made to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in aid of the construction of a railway from Lake Superior to some point on Puget Sound, with a branch via the Columbia River to a point at or near Portland, Oregon, of lands to which "the United States have full title, not reserved, sold...

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