Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COUET OF APPEALS FOE THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. These were petitions in equity filed by the Chicago, Bock Island and Pacific Bailway Company against the Union Pacific Bailway Company and the Omaha and Bepublican Valley Bailway Company; and by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Bail way Company against the Union Pacific Bail way Company in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, January 2, 1891, to compel the specific performance of two contracts…
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COUET OF APPEALS FOE THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. These were petitions in equity filed by the Chicago, Bock Island and Pacific Bailway Company against the Union Pacific Bailway Company and the Omaha and Bepublican Valley Bailway Company; and by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Bail way Company against the Union Pacific Bail way Company in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, January 2, 1891, to compel the specific performance of two contracts dated May 1, 1890, and April 30, 1890, respectively, and removed on petition of the Union Pacific Bailway Company to the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The questions to be considered are whether these contracts are within the corporate powers of the parties; were duly *581authorized as respects the Union Pacific Railway Company; were such contracts as a court of equity can specifically enforce; and were properly enforced on the merits.
It will be most convenient to consider the appeal in the case of the Rock Island Company. If the decree in favor of that company is affirmed, a like result must follow on the appeal in the case of the St. Paul Company. And we may remark in the outset that the main contention of the Pacific Company concerns the…
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