Citizens' Savings & Trust Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.. This.suit in equity was brought in the Circuit'Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois against the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the Belleville and Southern Illinois Railroad Company, the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company, all Illinois corporations (to be hereafter called, respectively, the Illinois, the Belleville, and Terre Haute…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.. This.suit in equity was brought in the Circuit'Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois against the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the Belleville and Southern Illinois Railroad Company, the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company, all Illinois corporations (to be hereafter called, respectively, the Illinois, the Belleville, and Terre Haute companies), and the United States Trust Company, a New York corporation. ' The last named corporation was never served with…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This case is here upon a certificate as to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court.
The Eastern District of Illinois was created by the act of Congress approved March 3d, 1905, c. 1427. 33 Stat. 992, 995. The- present suit in equity was, as we have stated, instituted in the Circuit Court for that District, but its jurisdiction was denied by the judgment below upon the ground solely that each defendant railroad corporation was shown to be an inhabitant of the Northern District of Illinois, not of the Eastern District, and, therefore, this suit was not local to the latter District.
By the eighth…
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