GRAND TRUNK WN. RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 153.

252 U.S. 112 (1920)

GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1920.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Theo. D. Halpin, with whom Mr. Harrison Geer, Mr. L.T. Michener and Mr. P.G. Michener were on the briefs, for appellant:

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Spellacy, with whom Mr. Leonard B. Zeisler and Mr. Charles H. Weston, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

The railroad from Port Huron to Flint, in Michigan, sixty miles in length, was completed on December 12, 1871. It was built by the Port Huron and Lake Michigan Railroad Company. By foreclosure of a mortgage executed by that corporation and several consolidations it became on October 31, 1900, the property of the Grand Trunk...

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