MINIDOKA R.R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 19.

235 U.S. 211 (1914)

MINIDOKA & SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 30, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry W. Clark and Mr. A.A. Hoehling, Jr., with whom Mr. P.L. Williams was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Knaebel, with whom Mr. W.W. Dyar was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE LAMAR delivered the opinion of the court.

The Minidoka & Southwestern Railroad Company was authorized by its charter to build its road along a line which ran through the Minidoka Irrigation Project in the State of Idaho. Homesteaders, without patents but lawfully in possession of irrigable land within the reclamation area, granted rights of way over their settlements to the Railroad Company.

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