...through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad whenever it passes through any State,...claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the " General Land...

...through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad, whenever it passes through any State,...the line thereof, the United States have full title, Statement of the Case. not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption...

...and which had not been previously reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and which were free from preemption or 'other claims or rights' at the time the line of the road was definitely fixed; giving to the railroad company the right to select lands within certain...

...through the territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad whenever it passes through any state,...full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise apportioned, and free from pre-emption, or 43JJ other claims or rights, at the time the line of said...

...the map of definite location by a company having a later grant which is expressly limited to lands "not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated,...and free from preemption or other claims or rights," — operates to except the withdrawn lands from the scope of such later grant. Northern PR Co. v. Musser-Sauntry...

...full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise apportioned, and free from pre-emption, or 433 other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the commissioner of the general land office;...

...which he afterward abandoned), it was not excepted from the grant, which included all lands that were " free from pre-emption or other claims or rights at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed." It is clear that Ketterer had no "claim or right" to the land, under any of the...

...1884. The railroad company claims that at the date when its rights attached, the land was public land, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from pre-emption or other claims or right?, and therefore inured to said company under its grant. John Flett claims the right to enter...

...territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said railrofid whenever it passes through any state, and whenever on the line thereof, the I'nited States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from...

...the right to dispose thereof, or over which the government has ceased to exercise control — lands not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated,...and free from pre-emption or other claims or rights. Do the lands in question from which defendants have cut the timber fall within this category? So far...