United States v. Northern Pac. R.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit’Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. On July 21, 1890, the United States of America filed its- bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the Northwestern Telegraph Company, and the Western Union Telegraph Company, the averments of which were substantially as follows: The Northern Pacific Railroad Company was incorporated by an act of…
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Appeal from the Circuit’Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. On July 21, 1890, the United States of America filed its- bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the Northwestern Telegraph Company, and the Western Union Telegraph Company, the averments of which were substantially as follows: The Northern Pacific Railroad Company was incorporated by an act of Congress approved July 2, 1864 (13 Stat. 365, c. 217), for the purpose of building and maintaining a continuous railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtHook, Circuit Judge
There is no act of Congress specially applicable to suits such as the one now under review, which designates the tribunal in which they shall be instituted. The case, therefore, falls within the general grant of jurisdiction to the Circuit Courts found in Judiciary Act Aug. 13, 1888, c. 866, § 1, 25 Stat. 433 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 508], and is subject to the limitations therein expressed. It is provided in that section that:
“No civil suit shall be brought * * * against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant.”
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