Weems Steamboat Co. of Baltimore v. People's Steamboat Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TQ THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The complainant (the above-named petitioner) commenced this suit in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia against the defendant, the Peopie’s Steamboat Company and its officers and agents, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction restraining the corporation defendant from using certain .wharves on the Rappahannock River, in the State of Virginia, of some of which the…
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CERTIORARI TQ THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The complainant (the above-named petitioner) commenced this suit in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia against the defendant, the Peopie’s Steamboat Company and its officers and agents, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction restraining the corporation defendant from using certain .wharves on the Rappahannock River, in the State of Virginia, of some of which the complainant was the owner in fee, and of others the lessee of the exclusive use from the owners. The complainant contended…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr., Justice Pecicham,
after making the foregoing statement, deliveted the opinion of the court.
It appears that the complainant herein is 'a corporation of the State of Maryland and the defendant is a corporation of the State of Virginia, the individual defendants being officers •or agents of such corporation and citizens of the same State.. The complainant has been for a long time engaged in the business of transportation of passengers and freight between Baltimore and various landings or places on the Rappahannock River, in the State of Virginia, and for many years has been the owner or…
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