Illinois ex rel. Hunt v. Illinois Cent. R.
United States Circuit Court
On Motion to Remand to the State Courts. The attorney general of Illinois, having first obtained leave, filed, May 9, 1887, in the criminal court of Cook county, an information in the nature of a quo 'warranto, in the name and on behalf of the people of Illinois, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company.
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On Motion to Remand to the State Courts. The attorney general of Illinois, having first obtained leave, filed, May 9, 1887, in the criminal court of Cook county, an information in the nature of a quo 'warranto, in the name and on behalf of the people of Illinois, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company. The information sets forth that the Illinois Central Railroad Company was incorporated by an act of the general assembly of Illinois, approved February, 1851, and for more than 12 months last past has used and exercised, and still uses and exercises, without any warrant, charter, or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Habeas
This cause is before the court upon a motion in behalf of the state to remand it to the criminal court of Cook county, upon the general ground that it is not one of which a circuit court of the United States can, under the act of March 3, 18-87, properly take cognizance. As the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of £2,000, the motion must be denied, if the suit is one “arising under the constitution or laws of the United States,” and is also of a “civil nature.” Act March 3, 1887, §§ 1, 2. It is the settled doctrine of the supreme court of the United…
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