Ex Parte Indiana Transportation Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ON PETITION FOB WBIT OF PEOHIBITION. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
The suit in which this writ of prohibition is sought was originally a libel in personam against the petitioner, an Indiana corporation, and others, for causing the death of one Dawson through the capsizing of the steamer Eastland in the Chicago River. The libel was filed on August 21, 1915. A citation was served upon an agent of the petitioner within the district and the petitioner filed exceptions to the libel.- On July 24, 1916, leave was granted “to certain parties” to intervene as libellants, and a citation to respondents not served was ordered, returnable the first Monday in September.…
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