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GREAT NORTHERN RY. CO. v. REED

No. 57.

270 U.S. 539 (1926)

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. REED ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 12, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. F.G. Dorety, Thomas Balmer, and Edwin C. Matthias were on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. E.V. Kuykendall, E.S. McCord, and Walter B. Whitcomb were on the brief, for respondents.

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

This was a suit in a state court in Whatcom County, Washington, against the Great Northern Railway Company to have it declared a trustee for the plaintiff of the title to a quarter-quarter section of land, theretofore patented to it by the United States, and to compel a conveyance in discharge of the trust. The company in its answer denied much that was alleged...

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