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UNITED STATES v. NEW ORLEANS PAC. RY. CO.

Nos. 164, 165, 166.

248 U.S. 507 (1919)

UNITED STATES ET AL. v. NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. UNITED STATES ET AL. v. NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. UNITED STATES ET AL. v. NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 27, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Kearful for the United States.

Mr. Mark Norris, Mr. F.G. Hudson and Mr. H.H. White, with whom Mr. J.G. Palmer was on the briefs, for appellees.

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

These suits are so related that they may be disposed of in a single opinion. Three tracts of land in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, each containing one hundred sixty acres, are in controversy — one in each suit. All are in odd-numbered sections within the limits of the grant of March 3, 1871, to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company, c. 122...

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