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LANDELL v. NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO.

Civ. A. No. 5514-50.

122 F.Supp. 253 (1954)

LANDELL et al. v. NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 23, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Lishman, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Bernard G. Ostmann, Washington, D. C., and Porter R. Chandler, New York City (Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl), New York City, for defendant.

TAMM, District Judge.

The issues of this case reach back over a period of ninety years to the time when Congress sought the expansion of the West by encouraging settlers and railroads through the inducement of free land which, at that time, must have seemed limitless. In this pioneer setting, on July 2, 1864, Congress created a Federal corporation, the Northern Pacific Railroad Company (hereafter referred to as the Railroad.)1 Financial...

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