Fishback v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FDR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was a bill filed by the Western Union Telegraph Company January 2, 1891, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas against William M. Fishback, Henry B. Armistead, and Charles B. Mills, constituting the board of railroad commissioners for the State of Arkansas, and some forty-seven clerks of different counties in the State, in which complainant…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FDR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was a bill filed by the Western Union Telegraph Company January 2, 1891, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas against William M. Fishback, Henry B. Armistead, and Charles B. Mills, constituting the board of railroad commissioners for the State of Arkansas, and some forty-seven clerks of different counties in the State, in which complainant had lines of telegraph, alleging that the complainant was a corporation and citizen of New York and each pf the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
It is argued that under the ¿verments of the bill the Circuit Court had jurisdiction on two grounds : 1. Diverse citizenship; 2. In that the case made by the bill was one arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States. Even if this were so, the Circuit Court could not take cognizance of the suit unless the matter in dispute exceeded, exclusive of costs and interest, the sum of $2000. Act of March 3, 1887, c. 373, §1, 24 Stat. 552; act of August 13, 1888, c. 866, 25 Stat. 433; United States v. Sayward, 160 U. S. 493, 498.
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