South Carolina v. Port Royal & A. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
In Equity. -On motion to remand. Suit by the state of South Carolina against the Port Royal & Augusta Railway Company to forfeit defendant’s charter.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMOETOH, District Judge.
The complaint in this case was filed in the. court of common pleas for Beaufort county, in the state of South. Carolina. A petition for removal of the cause into this court was filed by the defendant, with .the bond required by law. It is said that the state court refused to grant the order of removal: A trans.c-ript of the record, however, has been filed in this court, and the cause has been docketed here. The present motion is to remand it to the state court. The ground upon which it is based is that the record does not present a case arising under the constitution…
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- Stone v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Stone v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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- Crehore v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1889
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