Miller v. The State
Supreme Court of the United States
i. Motion to advance a cause, &c. Seven persons, asserting themselves to be the true directors of the Rochester and Genesee Railroad Company, a corporation created by the State of.
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i. Motion to advance a cause, &c. Seven persons, asserting themselves to be the true directors of the Rochester and Genesee Railroad Company, a corporation created by the State of. New York, brought suit in one of the courts of that State in the nature of a quo warranto — using the name of The People of the State of New York as plaintiff with their own names as relators — against one Miller and several others, who also asserted themselves to be directors, charging that these last had unlawfully usurped the office of directors, from which they, the relators, had been unlawfully ousted. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
The motion is that the cause be advanced, and that it be heard at such time as the court shall direct, in preference to civil causes between private parties.
Founded as the motion is, upon the act of Congress of the thii’tieth of June, 1870, it becomes necessary to inquire and determine whether the case is within the'terms of that act, as if it is the motion should be granted, and the-.cause set for hearing as there directed.
Provision is there made to the effect that in all suits apd actions now pending, or which may hereafter be brought, in a Federal court, whether the suit, is original or…
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