HOMESTEAD COMPANY v. VALLEY RAILROAD. DECEMBER TERM, 1872. 1. In this case the court decides, for the fifth time, that neither the State of Iowa nor any railroad company for whose benefit the act of Congress of May 15th, 1856 (11 Stat. at Large, 9), was made, took any title to the lands then claimed […]
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84 U.S. 153
84 U.S. 153 84 U.S. 153 21 L.Ed. 622 17 Wall. 153 HOMESTEAD COMPANYv.VALLEY RAILROAD. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa; the case being thus: On the 8th of August, 1846, Congress granted1 to the then Territory, and now State, of Iowa—— ‘For the purpose of aiding said […]