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Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. of Baltimore v. Collins Park & B. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Decided April 30, 1900No. 1,080PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Equity. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAK, District Judge.
On May 20, 1891, the mayor and general council, the governing body of the city of Atlanta, on the petition of Joel Hurt and A. A. Glasier, representing certain independent lines of street railway then being operated in the city of Atlanta, granted to the companies represented by said Hurt and Glasier certain rights of consolidation and electrical equipment, more particularly set out in the ordinance of the city as contained in the ‘Code of Atlanta, p. 506. It is shown by the report of the committee that the purpose of the petitioners was to combine said lines into a…
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- New Jersey v. YardSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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