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UNITED STATES v. NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO.

No. 325.

256 U.S. 51 (1921)

UNITED STATES v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Nebeker, with whom Mr. H.L. Underwood, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States:

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

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

This is a suit by the United States to cancel a patent issued to the railway company for 5,681.76 acres of land in Montana, the asserted ground for such relief being that the land officers issued the patent through inadvertence and mistake. The company prevailed in the District Court and in the Circuit Court of Appeals, 264 Fed. Rep. 898, and the United States brought...

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