City of Cleveland v. Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. On motion for rehearing upon jurisdiction of the Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
LURTON, Circuit Judge.
This was an action of ejectment started in the Ohio court of common pleas for the county of Cuyahoga. The plaintiff was a municipal corporation of the state of Ohio. The defendants were four distinct railroad corporations. Three of them were corporations of the state of Ohio, and the fourth, the Pennsylvania Company, a corporation of the state of Pennsylvania. After the cause was fully at issue, but before a trial upon the merits, the Pennsylvania Company removed the suit into the court below upon a petition which alleged that diversity of citizenship existed between it…
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- UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. IdeSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Phelps v. OaksSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Little v. GilesSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Cochran v. Montgomery CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1905
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