Ex parte Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION AND/OR WRIT OF MANDAMUS. ’ The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, commonly called the Rock Island, filed in this court a petition in which it allegéd that the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, was undertaking to proceed against it personally in a suit therein pending; that the Rock Island had not voluntarily become a party to the suit, had not been served with process, and could not under § 51 of the Judicial *275Code be made a party without its consent, since it was organized under the laws of…
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