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UNITED STATES v. CHICAGO, M. & ST. P. RY.

No. 54.

195 U.S. 524 (1904)

UNITED STATES v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 12, 1904.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Purdy for the United States, appellant.

Mr. Burton Hanson and Mr. W.H. Norris for railway comcompany, appellee:

Mr. Andrew C. Dunn for Woodwick and others, appellees.

MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

The Attorney General contends that before the passage of the act of Congress granting the land (July 4, 1866) Barclay had made legal entry upon the books of the local land office of the land in question, under the homestead laws of Congress, and that such legal entry was in existence at the time of the passage of the act...

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