Pennsylvania Railroad v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. This was a bill in equity to enforce specific performance'of a contract of lease of a railway, and contracts of guarantee. Cross appeals from the decree below. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
These are cross-appeals from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Indiana.
The suit was brought in that court by a bill in chancery, filed by the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company, alleging that it was a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, and a citizen of that State, against the Indianapolis and St. Louis Company, a corporation similarly organized under the laws of the State of-Indiana, and a citizen of that State, and against the other corporations mentioned in the bill as citizens of Indiana, or of other States than the State of…
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