Carey v. Houston & Texas Central Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. This was a bill filed by Carey, a citizen and resident of New Jersey, and seven other persons, citizens and residents of New York and citizens of Great Britain, respectively, as stockholders of the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, in their own behalf and in behalf of all others similarly situated, in ‘the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas, against the Houston and…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. This was a bill filed by Carey, a citizen and resident of New Jersey, and seven other persons, citizens and residents of New York and citizens of Great Britain, respectively, as stockholders of the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, in their own behalf and in behalf of all others similarly situated, in ‘the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas, against the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, No. 1, a corporation created by and existing under the laws of the State of Texas and a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
By the fifth section of the judiciary act of March 3, 1891, c. 517, 26 Stat. 826, it is provided that appeals may be taken from the Circuit Courts directly to this court “ in any case in which the jurisdiction of the court is in issue; in such cases the question of jurisdiction alone shall be certified to the Supreme Court from the court below for decision.” And we held in respect of the direct appeal to this court taken from the decree of the Circuit Court in this cause that such an appeal was not authorized simply because the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court over another suit previously…
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- Pacific Railroad of Missouri v. Missouri Pacific Ry. Co. And Others. 1Supreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Minnesota Co. v. St. Paul Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1865
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