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SOUTHERN PACIFIC v. UNITED STATES (NO. 2)

No. 142.

200 U.S. 354 (1906)

26 S.Ct. 298

50 L.Ed. 512

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 19, 1906.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Maxwell Evarts for appellant.

Mr. Joseph H. Call, special assistant to the Attorney General, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The single question is whether these lands were between the dates of the two surveys sub judice, and therefore not passing under the grant to the railroad company. The map of definite location was filed and approved in 1874, and at that time, which was between the dates of the two surveys, the grant took effect. The description of the lands in the grant and in the...

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