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ST. PAUL &C. RAILWAY CO. v. PHELPS

No. 26.

137 U.S. 528 (1890)

11 S.Ct. 168

34 L.Ed. 767

ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND MANITOBA RAILWAY COMPANY, v. PHELPS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 22, 1890.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. S.U. Pinney for appellant.

Mr. James McNaught, Mr. A.H. Garland and Mr. H.J. May, for appellee, submitted on their brief.

MR. JUSTICE LAMAR delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit in equity brought by the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company, a Minnesota corporation, against Ransom Phelps, to quiet the title to about 80 acres of land in Richland County, North Dakota, particularly described as the east half of the southeast quarter of section 13, township 132, range 48, alleged to belong to the plaintiff, and which was claimed by the defendant.

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