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SOUTHERN PAC. R.R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 269.

228 U.S. 618 (1913)

33 S.Ct. 717

57 L.Ed. 993

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Maxwell Evarts for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Knaebel, with whom Mr. W.W. Dyar was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The grant made to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company by § 23 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1871, 16 Stat. 573, c. 122, overlapped a prior grant made to the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company by the act of July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 292, c. 278. A forfeiture of the latter grant by the act of July 6, 1886, 24 Stat. 123, c. 637, was construed by...

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