Sullivan v. Fulton Steam Boat Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New-York. This was a bill in equity, filed in the Court below? in which Sullivan, one of the plaintiffs, was described as a citizen of Massachusetts, ánd others of the plaintiffs, as citizens of Connecticut and Vermont, and the defendants weré described as a corporate body incorporated by the legislature of the State of New-York, for the purpose of navigating, by steam boats, the waters of the East river, or Long…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New-York. This was a bill in equity, filed in the Court below? in which Sullivan, one of the plaintiffs, was described as a citizen of Massachusetts, ánd others of the plaintiffs, as citizens of Connecticut and Vermont, and the defendants weré described as a corporate body incorporated by the legislature of the State of New-York, for the purpose of navigating, by steam boats, the waters of the East river, or Long Island Sound,-ir said State. The object of the bill was to obtain an injunction to prevent the defendants froto so…
1Opinion of the Court
Decree. On motion of the appellants, by their counsel, and on inspection of the transcript of the record of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New-York, it is decreed and ordered, that the decree of the said Circuit Court, in this case, be, and the same is hereby affirmed, it not appearing from the record that the said Circuit Court had jurisdic tion in said cause. The said affirmance to be without prejudice to the complainants on the merits of the case.
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