Union Pac. R. v. Mason City & Ft. Dodge R.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. This appeal challenges a decree of the Circuit Court which adjudged the Union Pacific Railroad Company and three of its officers guilty of contempt and fined them for a violation of the decree rendered and the writ of injunction issued in August, 3903. in the case of the Mason City & Ft. Dodge Railroad Company against the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. This appeal challenges a decree of the Circuit Court which adjudged the Union Pacific Railroad Company and three of its officers guilty of contempt and fined them for a violation of the decree rendered and the writ of injunction issued in August, 3903. in the case of the Mason City & Ft. Dodge Railroad Company against the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The decree of 1903 adjudged (hat the Mason City Company and its lessee, the Chicago Great Western Railway Company, were “admitted into the full, equal, and joint…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Counsel for the appellants base their' contention that the court below was in error in its ruling in this case upon two propositions. They insist that the Great Western Company had no right under the decree of 1903 to deliver through cars or trains from its line at Council Bluffs to the Rock Island Company at South Omaha over the Pacific Company’s connection with that company at that place. Their second proposition is that the Great Western Company had no right to transfer cars to the Rock Island Company with its own engines over this connection except for…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Cromwell v. County of SacSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Union Pacific Railroad v. Mason City & Fort Dodge RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Denver & New Orleans RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Board of Com'rs v. PlattCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1897
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