RIO GRANDE RY. v. STRINGHAM

Nos. 4, 5.

239 U.S. 44 (1915)

RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. STRINGHAM.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 1, 1915.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Waldemar Van Cott, Mr. E.M. Allison, Jr., and Mr. William D. Riter for plaintiff in error.


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

This was a suit to quiet the title to a strip of land claimed and used by the plaintiff as a railroad right of way under the act of March 3, 1875, c. 152, 18 Stat. 482, and to which the defendants asserted title under a patent for a placer mining claim. At the trial the facts were specially found and judgment for the defendants was entered upon the findings. In reviewing that judgment the Supreme

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