Bitterman v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. Upon a bill filed on behalf of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana entered a decree perpetually enjoining the petitioners herein and four' other ticket brokers, engaged in business in the city of New Orleans, from dealing in non-transferable round trip tickets issued at reduced rates for passage over the lines of railway of…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. Upon a bill filed on behalf of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana entered a decree perpetually enjoining the petitioners herein and four' other ticket brokers, engaged in business in the city of New Orleans, from dealing in non-transferable round trip tickets issued at reduced rates for passage over the lines of railway of the complainant on account of the United Confederate Veterans’ Reunion and the • March Gras celebration held in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The points urged at bar on behalf of the petitioners as es-' tablishing that the decrees below should be reversed and the bill of complaint dismissed, and in any event the' injunction be modified and restricted, are the following:
“1. The bill of complaint does not state a cause of action, either at law or in equity, against any of the defendants, even though the tickets in which' they dealt are in form non-transferable, when the original purchasers disposed of them in breach of their contract with the complainant.”
“2. The complainant has shown no sufficient ground for equitable intervention,…
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