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NOR. PAC. RY. CO. v. CONCANNON

No. 87.

239 U.S. 382 (1915)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. CONCANNON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 20, 1915.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles W. Bunn for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William H. Hayden for defendants in error submitted.

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

As the successor to the rights of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company the Railway Company, plaintiff in error, sued to recover a piece of land alleged to be within the strip 400 feet wide granted by the act of Congress of July 2, 1864, to the former company as a right of way. (13 Stat. 365, c. 217.) The asserted right to a reversal of the decree which awarded the land to the defendant is based upon an error...

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