Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Wiggins Ferry Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COTJRT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURX. This was a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction. It was submitted on the 19th April, 1886, at the last term of court, and was ordered to be argued at the hearing on the merits. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
’ Mb. Chief Justice Waite
delivered,the opinion of the court.
The Federal question which it is claimed arises on this record is, whether the Supreme Court of Missouri in its judgment gate “ full faith and credit ” “ to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings ” of Illinois.
-'The facts are these: The Wiggins Ferry Company was in corporated by the state of Illinois in' 1853, and given the exclusive and perpetual right of' maintaining and operating a ferry across the Mississippi. Elver between its own lands in Ea^t ,St. Louis, on the ‘Illinois side, and St. Louis in Missouri. It owned…
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