Ross v. Union Pac. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kansas
The act of congress incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad Company granted the same aid to the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company as it did to the main line; that is, a certain amount of land and of government bonds per mile.
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The act of congress incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad Company granted the same aid to the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company as it did to the main line; that is, a certain amount of land and of government bonds per mile. The last-named company was incorporated by tlie legislature of Kansas, and by an act of the same legislature, its name was changed to the Union Pacific Railway (Eastern Division). On the 19th of September. 1862, this company, by its former name, entered into a contract with Ross, Steel, & Co., the substance of which, so far as it is material to be stated…
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Circuit Justice.
This is an application for an injunction, on a bill filed in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kansas. The material matters set forth in the bill may be shortly stated thus: In September, 1SG2, the plaintiffs, under the partnership name of Ross, Steel, & Co., contracted with the defendant, under the corporate name of the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company, which has since been changed to its present style, that they would build for it a railroad in the state of Kansas, some 350 miles in length, the same to be part of the great…
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