Oregon Short Line & U. N. Ry. Co. v. Northern Pac. R. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon
In Equity. Action by Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern Railway Company against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Statement by Field, Circuit Justice: The complainant is a corporation formed under the act of congress of August 2, 1882, entitled “An act creating the Oregon Short Line Railway Company, a corporation in the territories of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, and for other purposes,” (22 St. p. 185, c. 372,) and by the consolidation with it, under the authority of the…
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In Equity. Action by Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern Railway Company against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Statement by Field, Circuit Justice: The complainant is a corporation formed under the act of congress of August 2, 1882, entitled “An act creating the Oregon Short Line Railway Company, a corporation in the territories of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, and for other purposes,” (22 St. p. 185, c. 372,) and by the consolidation with it, under the authority of the general incorporation acts of those territories and of the state of Nevada, in force on the 27th of July, 1889, ,of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The oral arguments of counsel on the hearing of this case were extended and able, and their elaborate briefs since filed, covering 350 pages of printed matter in octavo form, touch upon nearly every question relating *470to the receipt, transfer, and forwarding of freight and passengers by connecting iines of railway, and the respectivo rights and liabilities of the parties. To give proper consideration to the questions thus brought forr ward would, extend this opinion into a treatise on the subject, which we have neither the disposition, time, nor necessary information to undertake and…
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