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NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO. v. McCOMAS

No. 172.

250 U.S. 387 (1919)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. v. McCOMAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles Donnelly, with whom Mr. Charles W. Bunn was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Harvey M. Friend for respondent.

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

This is a suit to quiet title in the plaintiff to five small tracts of land in Umatilla County, Oregon, the right to such relief being predicated solely on adverse possession under color of title for ten years, the period prescribed in a local statute. The plaintiff obtained a judgment, which at first was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State and then on a petition for rehearing was modified as to two...

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