Blair v. City of Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE VÜNITED, STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.;. .. These are appeals from two decrees of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
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APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE VÜNITED, STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.;. .. These are appeals from two decrees of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. The origin of the cases dates from April 22, 19Ó3, when the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a corporation and citizen of that State, filed three suits in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois against .the Chicago Union Traction Company, the North Chicago Street Railroad Company, and the West Chicago Street Railroad Company, corporations and…
1Opinion of the Court
Mit. Justice Day,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
THe jurisdiction of the Circuit Court to render the original judgments against the companies arid to maintain the ancillary bill is. challenged at the outset. These objections require notice before considering the controversy upon its merits. It is insisted that the Circuit Court ,had no jurisdiction to render the judgments at law .because of the provisions of the act of August 13, 1888, 25 Stat. 433, 434, providing that no Circuit Court shall - have. cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any…
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