Saginaw Gas-Light Co. v. City of Saginaw
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
In Equity. On motion for preliminary injunction. This was a bill by the Saginaw Gas-light Company to enjoin the city of Saginaw from entering into a contract with an electric light company to light its streets.
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In Equity. On motion for preliminary injunction. This was a bill by the Saginaw Gas-light Company to enjoin the city of Saginaw from entering into a contract with an electric light company to light its streets. The facts of the case were substantially as follows: On the twenty-second of April, 1868, the common council of the city of Saginaw passed an ordinance, in which, after reciting that it was desirable that the city should be lighted with gas, and that, to induce any company to erect gas-works, lay down gas-pipes, and furnish a supply of gas, it was necessary to grant to such company…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
A preliminary objection to the jurisdiction of the court in this case demands our first consideration. That no jurisdiction *531is acquired by reason of the citizenship of the parties is too clear for argument. The plaintiff and the city of Saginaw (the principal defendant) are citizens of the same state, and the fact that another party, viz., the Fort Wayne Jenney Electric Light Company, a citizen of Indiana, is also joined as defendant, is insufficient. Under the original judiciary act of 1789, which conferred upon the circuit courts jurisdiction of all suits “between a citizen of the state…
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