Legal Opinion

Peninsular Iron Co. v. Stone

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 2, 1887No. 229PublishedCited by 26 opinions

APPEAL from the circuit court op the united states for THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA, EASTERN DIVISION. This was a bill in equity to compel an accounting. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Chief Justic 3 Waite

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the bill in a suit in equity begun by certain'citizens of Michigan and Samuel M. Carpenter, Charles Wason, and Leander M. Hubby, citizens of Ohio, against Andros B. Stone, a citizen of New York, The St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railway Company, an Iowa corporation, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, an Illinois corporation, and Dan. P. Eels, a citizen of Ohio, to bring the defendants Stone and Eels to an accounting under a certain contract made, by Stone with the…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Strawbridge v. CurtissSupreme Court of the United States · 1806
  2. Meyer v. Construction CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  3. Barney v. Baltimore CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1868
  4. Hyde v. RubleSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
  5. The Corporation of New-Orleans v. WinterSupreme Court of the United States · 1816

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Smith v. LyonSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  2. Graves v. CorbinSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  3. Merchants' Cotton Press & Storage Co. v. Insurance Co. of North AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  4. Levering & Garrigues Co. v. MorrinCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1932
  5. Hooe v. JamiesonSupreme Court of the United States · 1897

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