Legal Opinion

Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Central Stock Yards Co.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 1, 1909No. 51Published

ERROR TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OF THE STATE OP KENTUCKY.. • The facts are stated in the opinion. So far as concerns interstate shipments of live stock, the whole matter is concluded by the judgment of the Federal court in the former litigation in Central Stock Yards Co. v. Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., 192 U. S. 568, and that judgment is a bar to the relief sought in this case as to such interstate shipments.

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ERROR TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OF THE STATE OP KENTUCKY.. • The facts are stated in the opinion. So far as concerns interstate shipments of live stock, the whole matter is concluded by the judgment of the Federal court in the former litigation in Central Stock Yards Co. v. Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., 192 U. S. 568, and that judgment is a bar to the relief sought in this case as to such interstate shipments. Dupasseur v. Rocherau, 21 Wall. 130; Embry v. Palmer, 107 U. S. 3; Crescent City Live Stock Co. v. Butchers’ Union Slaughter House Co., 120 U. S. 141; Deposit Bank v. Frankfort, 191…

1Opinion of the Court 1

212 U.S. 132 (1909)

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY

v.

CENTRAL STOCK YARDS COMPANY.

No. 51.

Supreme Court of United States.

Argued December 10, 11, 1908.

Decided January 25, 1909.

ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY.

Mr. Helm Bruce, with whom Mr. Henry L. Stone, Mr. James P. Helm and Mr. Kennedy Helm were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Joseph C. Dodd, with whom Mr. John L. Dodd was on the brief, for defendant in error.

2Opinion of the Court · HolmesJustice Holmes

This is a proceeding in equity prosecuted in the courts of Kentucky, similar in the main to one in the United States courts between the same…

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  2. Kohl v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  3. Roller v. HollySupreme Court of the United States · 1900
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