BURKE v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC R.R. CO.

Nos. 279, 280.

234 U.S. 669 (1914)

BURKE v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. LAMPRECHT v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 22, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic R. Kellogg and Mr. Roberts Walker, with whom Mr. Edmund Burke, pro se, was on the brief, for Burke.

Mr. D.J. Hinkley, with whom Mr. T.J. Butler was on the brief, for Lamprecht and Aiken, trustees.

Mr. Maxwell Evarts, with whom Mr. Henry W. Clark, Mr. Gordon M. Buck and Mr. A.A. Hoehling, Jr., were on the brief, for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.

By leave of court, The Solicitor General filed a memorandum on behalf of the United States.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

In 1910 Edmund Burke filed a bill in equity in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of California, against the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the Kern Trading and Oil Company, and several individuals, wherein he sought a decree establishing certain rights claimed by him in five sections of land in Fresno County, California, and enjoining...

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