State ex rel. Cunningham v. Jack
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
In Equity. On cross bill of interveners.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONTON, Circuit Judge.
This case now comes up on the cross bill filed by the state of South Carolina, ex relatione T. B. Cunningham, and others, the answers thereto, and the testimony taken before the special master upon the issues therein set forth. Although the name of the state is used, still the suit being ex relatione, this court has jurisdiction. Maryland v. Baldwin, 112 U. S. 490, 5 Sup. Ct. 278, 28 L. Ed. 822; Indiana v. Glover, 155 U. S. 517, 15 Sup. Ct. 186, 39 L. Ed. 243.
The legislature of South Carolina, in December, 1882, granted a charter to the Greenville & Port Royal Railroad…
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