U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska July 1, 1876 (Sioux City & P. R. v. Union Pac. R.)

DILLON, Circuit Judge.

One of these suits relates to lands within the ten-mile limit of the land grant of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the other to lands outside of the ten-mile and within the twenty-mile limit, The lands are patended to the contesting companies. jointly, as tenants in common. Each company claims for itself the sole and absolute ownership of all the lands.