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 *3 line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. 1 In genera…
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