Arkansas v. Kansas & Texas Coal Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL EBOM THE CIRCUIT' COUBT ÓE THE UNITED STATES FOE THE WESTEBN ' DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was a bill filed in the circuit court of Sebastian County, for the district of Greenwood,. Arkansas, by “ The State of A r-kansas, on thé relation of Jo.
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APPEAL EBOM THE CIRCUIT' COUBT ÓE THE UNITED STATES FOE THE WESTEBN ' DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was a bill filed in the circuit court of Sebastian County, for the district of Greenwood,. Arkansas, by “ The State of A r-kansas, on thé relation of Jo. Johnson, prosecuting attorney for the 12th judicial circuit,” against the Kansas and-Texas Coal Company and the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, which, “ for her cause of action,” alleged, that the railroad company was “ a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, owning and operating a railroad in the 12th…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The gravamen of the bill was the injury to the health, morals, peace and good order of the people of th¿ town and county, the .infliction of which ivas alleged to be threatened by the bringing within their precincts of certain persons by defendants. No statute of the State was referred to as applicable, but the enforcement of the police power was sought through the interposition of a court of equity by way of prevention of an impending public nuisance. The Circuit Court was of opinion that the bill could not be maintained, but, without intimating any conclusion to the contrary, or.criticising…
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