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NORTHERN PAC. R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 59.

356 U.S. 1 (1958)

78 S.Ct. 514

2 L.Ed.2d 545

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 10, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. L. Countryman, Jr. argued the cause for appellants. With him on the brief was Dean H. Eastman.

Daniel M. Friedman argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Hansen, Henry Geller, Margaret H. Brass and W. Louise Florencourt.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1864 and 1870 Congress granted the predecessor of the Northern Pacific Railway Company approximately forty million acres of land in several Northwestern States and Territories to facilitate its construction of a railroad line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound.1 In general terms, this grant consisted of every alternate section of land in a...

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