Hamer v. New York Railways Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The case is stated dn the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
delivered the opinion of the court.. This appeal presents the single question whether the District Court erred in dismissing the bill for want of jurisdiction, on the. ground that the controversy involved was not one between citizens of different States. The question was duly certified in conformity to § 238 of the Judicial Code. The facts are these:
The Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Street Crosstown Railroad Company, of New. York City, issued, on October 1, 1896, bonds to the amount of $1,500,BOO, and secured them by a mortgage of its property to the Central Trust Company. The Metropolitan…
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