Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit July 5, 1892, No. 109 (Girard Life Insurance v. Cooper)

Shiras, District Judge.

The Choctaw Coal & Railway Company, a corporation- created under the laws of the state of Minnesota, with the right, among other things, to build and operate railways and to own and develop coal mines, was authorized by the acts of congress approved February 18,1888, and February 13,1889, to'construct a railway within the Indian Territory.