New York, N. H. & H. R. Co. v. City of New York
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. On demurrer to bill for want of jurisdiction.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
The demurrer to the bill of complaint is to the jurisdiction of the court, because (1) there is not the requisite diversity of citizenship between the parties; and (2) the bill does not present a case which substantially involves the construction of the Constitution of the United States, but is one which is merely color-able. ¡ ■
The action is in equity to vacate certain assessments for a local improvement made by the taxing authorities of the City of New York against the Harlem River & Port Chester Railroad Company, and which became a lien .upon the lands of that…
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- Mason v. DullaghamCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1897
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