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UNITED STATES v. OREGON &C. RAILROAD

No. 318.

164 U.S. 526 (1896)

17 S.Ct. 165

41 L.Ed. 541

UNITED STATES, v. OREGON AND CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 14, 1896.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Dickinson and Mr. George H. Williams for appellants.

Mr. J. Hubley Ashton and Mr. Joseph H. Choate (with whom were Mr. Charles H. Tweed and Mr. William F. Herrin on the brief), for appellees.

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

If the act of May 4, 1870, should be held to have authorized the construction of a main road from Portland to Astoria, and that the lands adjacent to, and coterminous with, such main road, on both sides, were granted in order to accomplish that purpose; and also to have authorized the construction of a branch from the main line, at a junction...

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