Legal Opinion
City of Chattanooga, Tenn. v. Louisville & Nashville R. Co.
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
Decided January 4, 1969No. Civ. A. 5089PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRANK W. WILSON, District Judge.
In this lawsuit the pursuit of the “General” continues. While the capture of the now ancient and historic steam locomotive known as the “General” remains the object of the pursuers in this lawsuit, unlike on that fateful day of April 12, 1862, life and death does not hang in the balance. Rather here the pursuers and the pursued vie with each other as to the more appropriate manner to preserve and do honor to the memory of the men and the traditions which are bound up in the story of the “General”,
In an age when scarely a tradition heretofore honored by…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Mead v. BallardSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Henry County v. Standard Oil Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1934
- Milligan v. Greeneville CollegeTennessee Supreme Court · 1928
- Ratto v. Nashville Trust Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1942
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Department of Iowa v. Griswold American Legion Post 508Supreme Court of Iowa · 2002
- In Re NolanUnited States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1997
- Lackawanna Chapter of Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. v. St. Louis CountyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2007
- City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Felix Miller, Jr., Donald W. Hayden, E. R. Pickett, and Fred Rothberger, Jr. v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1970
- Nolan v. United States Internal Revenue ServiceUnited States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1997
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