Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. City of Clarksdale
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR AND CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. Certiorari to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Mississippi rendered in favor of the City of Clarksdale in a suit brought by the city to assert its ownership in shares of stock in a railway company. The facts are stated in the opinion. The writ of error should be dismissed. Jud. Code, § 237, as amended. The federal question presented was not of sufficient importance to warrant certiorari.
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ERROR AND CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. Certiorari to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Mississippi rendered in favor of the City of Clarksdale in a suit brought by the city to assert its ownership in shares of stock in a railway company. The facts are stated in the opinion. The writ of error should be dismissed. Jud. Code, § 237, as amended. The federal question presented was not of sufficient importance to warrant certiorari. The Act of 1893, 27 Stat. 751, has no application to a sale of property under execution in common-law cases. Under §§ 914, 916,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
This is a controversy over the ownership of 250 shares of the stock of the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Company, a corporation of Mississippi. The City of Qarlcsdale acquired the stock in 1891, in consideration of $25,000 of bonds issued by it to aid in the construction of a new branch of the Railway Company in which it was interested. The certificate for the stock, the City left in the custody of a Clarksdale bank. The Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Company in 1892 was merged by consolidation in the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. In 1897, the Pacific…
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