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UNITED STATES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY CO.

No. 149.

148 U.S. 562 (1893)

13 S.Ct. 724

37 L.Ed. 560

UNITED STATES, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 10, 1893.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Maury for appellant.

Mr. John F. Dillon, (with whom was Mr. Harry Hubbard on the brief,) for the Union Pacific Railway Company and Joseph Standley.

Mr. Oscar Reuter filed a brief for Joseph Standley and others.

MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The object of this bill is to procure the surrender and cancellation of certain patents issued for a triangular tract of land of about 200,000 acres in extent, lying upon the outside of the right angle, or elbow, made by the junction at Denver of the Kansas Pacific Railway, whose general course is east and west, with the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, whose general course...

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