Legal Opinion

Hukill v. Maysville & B. S. R. Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky

Decided July 1, 1896PublishedCited by 41 opinions

This case was heard on a motion to remand to the state court. On the 12th day of January, 1895, the plaintiff filed his petition in the Kenton circuit court, at Independence, Ky., againsc the Maysville & Big Sandy Railroad Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, C. E. Acra, George Shumate, Henry Thien, John Shappart, and W. E. Gaynor, defendants, in the following words: ■ “Defendant the Maysville & Big Sandy Railroad Company is, and at the time hereinafter stated was, a…

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This case was heard on a motion to remand to the state court. On the 12th day of January, 1895, the plaintiff filed his petition in the Kenton circuit court, at Independence, Ky., againsc the Maysville & Big Sandy Railroad Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, C. E. Acra, George Shumate, Henry Thien, John Shappart, and W. E. Gaynor, defendants, in the following words: ■ “Defendant the Maysville & Big Sandy Railroad Company is, and at the time hereinafter stated was, a corporation owning a railroad extending into the county of Kenton, and railway tracks, workshops, roundhouse, railway…

1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above). This motion came regularly before me in this court, but it involved such important questions in regard to the removal of cases from the state courts to the federal courts that I deemed it my duty to invite Judge BURTON to sit with me in the hearing of the case. This he kindly consented to do, and we have given to the consideration of the issues presented, and those which we find it necessary to decide, the care their importance demanded. We have been assisted by a very full argument by counsel, and by elaborate briefs. If any one of the Chesapeake & Ohio…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. WangelinSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  2. Railroad Co. v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
  3. Osborne v. MorganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
  4. New York & Maryland Line R. Co. v. WinansSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
  5. Warax v. Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky · 1896

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3Cited by41 opinions

  1. Albi v. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1944
  2. Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. AbernathySupreme Court of Alabama · 1916
  3. Breymann v. PENNSYLVANIA, O. & DR CO.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1930
  4. Dowell v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1910
  5. Prince v. Illinois Cent. R.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky · 1899

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