Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. United States

Citations

• 223 U.S. 560
• 32 S. Ct. 325
• 56 L. Ed. 551
• 1912 U.S. LEXIS 2257

Syllabus

<p>The Southern Pacific Railroad Company is not entitled under the ■Branch Line Land Grant Act of March 3, 1871, c. 122, § 23, 16 Stat. 573, 579, to select as lieu lands within the indemnity limits specified in that act, any lands within the granted or indemnity limits of the grant made to Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company by the act of July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 292, c. 278, and forfeited by that road under the act of July 6,1886, 24 Stat. 123, c. 637. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. v. United States, 168 U. S. 1, followed, and Ryan v. Railroad Co., 99 U. S. 382, distinguished.</p>