Ex Parte Nebraska
Supreme Court of the United States
PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS. On June 15,1907, the State of Nebraska; William T. Thompson, Attorney General; Nebraska State Railway Commission; Hudson J. Winnett, J. A. Williams and Henry T. Clarke, Jr., as members of the Nebraska State Railway Commission of the State of Nebraska brought suit against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company to enjoin that company from charging more for the transportation of freight and passengers within the State of Nebraska than…
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PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS. On June 15,1907, the State of Nebraska; William T. Thompson, Attorney General; Nebraska State Railway Commission; Hudson J. Winnett, J. A. Williams and Henry T. Clarke, Jr., as members of the Nebraska State Railway Commission of the State of Nebraska brought suit against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company to enjoin that company from charging more for the transportation of freight and passengers within the State of Nebraska than the rates fixed for such transportation in certain acts of the legislature of the State of Nebraska, and also from…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The motion to remand presented for decision the question whether there v/as in the case a controversy wholly between citizens of different States, to the complete determination of which the State of Nebraska was not an indispensable party. If defendant’s contention was correct, the action could have been originally brought in the Federal court and its jurisdiction of the case was complete on removal. The Circuit Court was called upon to determine that question and to exercise judicial discretion in deciding it. This being so, its jurisdiction was complete, and if it erred in its conclusions…
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