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UNITED STATES v. SOUTHERN PAC. CO.

No. 179.

251 U.S. 1 (1919)

UNITED STATES v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 17, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Crawford Biggs, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Kearful for the United States.

Mr. Charles R. Lewers, with whom Mr. William F. Herrin and Mr. Joseph P. Blair were on the brief, for appellees:

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

This is a suit by the United States to cancel a patent issued December 12, 1904, to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for eight full and two partial sections of land within the indemnity limits of the grant made to that company by an act of Congress, c. 278, 14 Stat. 292, it being charged in the bill that the railroad company

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