Minnesota v. Northern Securities Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
On the 7th day of January, 1902, came the State of Minnesota, by Wallace B. Douglas, its Attorney General, and moved the court for leave to file a bill of complaint against the Northern Securities Company, a corporation of the State of New Jersey. Thereupon, the court directed that notice of such application should be given to the defendant, and set the motion for argument on January 27, 1902, when it was duly heard.
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On the 7th day of January, 1902, came the State of Minnesota, by Wallace B. Douglas, its Attorney General, and moved the court for leave to file a bill of complaint against the Northern Securities Company, a corporation of the State of New Jersey. Thereupon, the court directed that notice of such application should be given to the defendant, and set the motion for argument on January 27, 1902, when it was duly heard. The bill proposed to be filed was in the following terms: To the Judges of the Súfreme Court of the United States of America: Your oratrix, the State of Minnesota, complainant,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shieas
Whether a bill in equity filed in this court, in the name of a State, which seeks to prevent by injunction a corporation organized under the laws of another State, with power to acquire and hold shares of the capital stock of any other corporation, from obtaining and exercising ownership and control of two or more competing railroad companies of the complainant State, so as to evade and defeat its laws and policy forbidding the consolidation of such railroads when parallel and competing, presents the case -of a controversy of a civil nature whereof this court has jurisdiction under the…
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