SCHMIDT v. UNITED STATES

No. 8893.

102 F.2d 589 (1939)

SCHMIDT et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing April 27, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Boylan, of Philadelphia, Pa., Robert L. Edmiston, of Spokane, Wash., and Raymond M. Hudson, Minor Hudson, and Geoffrey Creyke, Jr., all of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

L. B. da Ponte and D. R. Frost, both of St. Paul, Minn., and F. J. McKevitt, of Spokane, Wash., for appellees Northern Pac. Ry. Co., Northern Pac. R. Co., and Northwestern Imp. Co.

White & Case, of New York City, for appellee Bankers Trust Co.

Taylor, Blanc, Capron & Marsh, of New York City, for appellee City Bank Farmers Trust Co.

Walter L. Pope, and E. E. Danly, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Before WILBUR, HANEY, and STEPHENS, Circuit Judges.


WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

On July 31, 1930, the United States brought an action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, a federal corporation, the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as reorganized in 1875, a de facto corporation, and Northern Pacific Railway Company, organized under the laws of Wisconsin, and certain other defendants, to quiet title to 2,900,000 acres of land, and for other...

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