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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. PATTERSON

No. 357.

154 U.S. 130 (1894)

14 S.Ct. 977

38 L.Ed. 934

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, v. PATTERSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James McNaught for plaintiff in error. Mr. F.M. Dudley filed a brief for same.

Mr. W.W. Dixon for defendant in error, submitted on his brief; on which were also Mr. H.J. Haskell, Attorney General of the State of Montana, Mr. H.C. Cockrill, and Mr. Ella L. Knowles.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The ground upon which it was asserted that these lands were not subject to taxation was that they had not been identified as lands passing to the plaintiff under its grant, because the United States had refused to certify them, and held them suspended "for the reason that it is claimed that such lands are mineral and are excepted from the grant to the plaintiff." It was said in ...

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