City of Winfield v. Wichita Natural Gas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John C. Pollock, Judge. Suit by the City of Winfield against the Wichita Natural Gas Company and others. From an order dissolving an interlocutory injunction, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas; John C. Pollock, Judge. Suit by the City of Winfield against the Wichita Natural Gas Company and others. From an order dissolving an interlocutory injunction, complainant appeals. The city of Winfield has appealed from an order of the court below, which dissolved an interlocutory injunction that forbade the defendants below, the Wichita Natural Gas Company, a corporation of Delaware, engaged in producing, buying, and selling natural gas, and the Winfield Natural Gas Company, a corporation of Kansas, engaged in the…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above).
[1, 2] Counsel first argue that dhe order dissolving the injunction should be reversed for want of jurisdiction of the District Court, because there was no separable controversy between the city and the Wichita Company, a corporation of Delaware, while the other defendant was a corporation of Kansas, a corporation of the same state as was the plaintiff.
“Separate and distinct causes of action disclosed by tbe record in a single suit, upon either of which a separate suit could have been maintained, and the determination of neither of which is essential to the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Syndicate Ins. v. BohnCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1894
- Texas Co. v. Central Fuel Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1912
- Fritzlen v. Boatmen's BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- American Grain Separator Co. v. Twin City Separator Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1912
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- Conservation Council of North Carolina v. Col. Albert C. Costanzo, Wilmington District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, U.S. ArmyCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
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