Ladew v. Tennessee Copper Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, are stated in the opinion. The decrée dismissing the suit against the Tennessee Copper Company is a final decree from which an appeal will lie. Hohorst v. Hamburg-American Packet Co., 148 TJ.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court, are stated in the opinion. The decrée dismissing the suit against the Tennessee Copper Company is a final decree from which an appeal will lie. Hohorst v. Hamburg-American Packet Co., 148 TJ. S. 262, distinguished, and see Withenbury v. United States, 5 Wall. 819; Hill v. Chicago & Evanston B. B. Co., 140 U. S. 52. A bill in equity to abate a nuisance is a local suit which can be brought only in the district in which the nuisance to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This action in equity was brought by the present appellants, citizens of New York and of West Virginia, against the appellees, the Tennessee Copper Company, a corporation of New Jersey, and' the Ducktown Sulphur, Copper and Iron Company, Limited, a British corporation — each of those corporations having its chief office and place of - business in Polk County, Tennessee, within the territorial jurisdiction of the Circuit'Court.
The business of each defendant is the mining, manufacturing and producing of copper and sulphur ores and products. The plaintiffs are the joint owners in fee and in…
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