Pullman's Palace Car Co. v. Central Transportation Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FROM THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP PENNSYLYANIA; AND ALSO CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The record in this case shows that in 1870 the Central Transportation Company, hereafter called the Central Company, was a corporation which had been in 1862 incorporated under the general manufacturing laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FROM THE EASTERN DISTRICT OP PENNSYLYANIA; AND ALSO CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The record in this case shows that in 1870 the Central Transportation Company, hereafter called the Central Company, was a corporation which had been in 1862 incorporated under the general manufacturing laws of the State of Pennsylvania. It was engaged in the business of operating railway sleeping cars and of hiring them to railroad companies under written contracts by which the cars were to be used by the railroad companies…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The motion to dismiss the appeal in this case is now before the court.
Counsel for the Pullman Company took the appeal directly from the Circuit Court to this court on the theory that the case involved the construction or application of the Constitution of the United States, because of the holding of the court below- that the cause of action alleged by the Central Company in its cross-bill was, under the circumstances, a proper subject of equitable cognizance, and counsel claimed it was really nothing but a legal cause of action in regard to which the cross-defendant was entitled to a trial by…
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