Legal Opinion

Des Moines and Fort Dodge Railroad Co. v. Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific R'y Co.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 19, 1890No. 256PublishedCited by 7 opinions

APPEAL FROM THE .CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. In equity. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. J ustice Miller

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal ftíbm a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa, dismissing the intervention by appellant in a large and more important suit involving the sale of a railroad owned by the Des Moines and Northwestern Railway Company. As the petition of intervention is the first paper found in the record of the case before us, we are somewhat at a loss to understand the nature and character of the original suit in which the appellant sought to intervene. It is to be inferred, however, that the…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Thompson v. Texas Mexican Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1895
  3. Cox v. Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern RailroadIndiana Supreme Court · 1913
  4. Baker v. Central Trust Co. of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1916
  5. Kansas City Terminal Ry. Co. v. Central Union Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1923

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