Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. This was an action of covenant, brought September 21,18S6, by th'e Central Transportation Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania, against Pullman’s Palace Car Company, a corporation of Illinois, to recover the sum of $198,000, due for the last three quarters of the year, ending July 1, 1886, according to the terms of an indenture of lease from the plaintiff of all its personal property…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. This was an action of covenant, brought September 21,18S6, by th'e Central Transportation Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania, against Pullman’s Palace Car Company, a corporation of Illinois, to recover the sum of $198,000, due for the last three quarters of the year, ending July 1, 1886, according to the terms of an indenture of lease from the plaintiff of all its personal property to the defendant, dated February 17, 1870, and set forth in full in the declaration. The defendant filed several pleas,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The principal defence in this case, duly made by the defendant, by formal plea, as well as by objection to the plaintiff’s evidence, and sustained by the Circuit Court, was that the indenture of lease sued on was void in law, because beyond the powers of each of the corporations by and between whom it was made.
There' is a preliminary question of practice, arising out of the manner in which the case was disposed of below, which is deserving of notice, although not mentioned by counsel iii argument.
The Circuit' Court; in ordering a nonsuit because in its opinion the evidence offered by the…
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