Central Grain & Stock Exch. of Hammond v. Board of Trade of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. On December 23, 1902, the appellee, a corporation of the state of Illinois, filed its bill of complaint for an injunction against the appellant, a corporation of the state of Delaware, of like character with the bill in Illinois Commission Company v. Cleveland Telegraph Company, 119 Fed. 301, 56 C. C. A. 205, to restrain the receiving, obtaining, and distributing of market quotations of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. On December 23, 1902, the appellee, a corporation of the state of Illinois, filed its bill of complaint for an injunction against the appellant, a corporation of the state of Delaware, of like character with the bill in Illinois Commission Company v. Cleveland Telegraph Company, 119 Fed. 301, 56 C. C. A. 205, to restrain the receiving, obtaining, and distributing of market quotations of the appellee until the right so to do should have been first acquired from the appellee, and subpoena issued returnable…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). In every case the question with which a federal court is first confronted is that of its jurisdiction, both over the subject-matter and of the party; and this jurisdiction must affirmatively appear upon the record. So far has this doctrine been carried that judgments have been frequently reversed upon appeal because the records did not disclose the essential jurisdictional facts. Railway Company v. Swan, 111 U. S. 379, 4 Sup. Ct. 510, 28 L. Ed. 462; Hancock v. Holbrook, 112 U. S. 229, 5 Sup. Ct. 115, 28 L. Ed. 714; Ayers v. Watson, 113 U. S. 594, 598, 5…
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- Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Railway Co. v. SwanSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Powers v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- St. Clair v. CoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Goldey v. Morning NewsSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Meyer v. Construction CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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