Northern Pacific Railroad v. Clark
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This case, under the style of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Walker, 148 IT. S. 391, was before this court at October term, 1892, and the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court not appearing upon the face of the record, it was remanded with leave to amend.
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This case, under the style of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Walker, 148 IT. S. 391, was before this court at October term, 1892, and the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court not appearing upon the face of the record, it was remanded with leave to amend. The appellant accordingly, on June 6, 1893, filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of North Dakota its amended bill of complaint, in which, after setting forth its creation and organization under and by virtue of an act of Congress approved…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
In the view we take of the case, the answer to the last question will dispose of the suit, and render it unnecessary to enter upon the consideration and determination of the other propositions of law on which instructions are asked.
By an act of the legislature of the Territory, approved March 9, 1883, c. 99, Laws of 1883, it was provided that all railroad companies, except railroads operated by horse power, owned and operated within the Territory, should pay two per centum on the gross earnings of their railroads for a period of five years, and thereafter three per centum on the gross…
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