Blair v. City of Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE VÜNITED, STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.;. .. These are appeals from two decrees of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
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APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE VÜNITED, STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.;. .. These are appeals from two decrees of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. The origin of the cases dates from April 22, 19Ó3, when the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a corporation and citizen of that State, filed three suits in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois against .the Chicago Union Traction Company, the North Chicago Street Railroad Company, and the West Chicago Street Railroad Company, corporations and…
1Dissent
Mr. Justice McKenna,
with whom concur Mr. Justice Brewer and Mr. Justice Brown, dissenting.
This case as to questions common to all the railways depends mainly upon the acts of 1859 and 1865 — incidentally upon the act of 1861. The latter act may be omitted from special consideration, as it depends upon the others: Private Laws of Illinois, 1861, p. 340. It incorporated' the Chicago West Division Railway Company and gave to that company all the powers conferred upon the other companies by the second, third, fourth and sixth sections of the act of 1859.
It will be, observed of the acts of 1859…
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- Bank of Columbia v. OkelySupreme Court of the United States · 1819
- Minot v. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- McCluskey v. . CromwellNew York Court of Appeals · 1854
- Citizens' Bank v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Galveston & Western Railway Co. v. City of GalvestonTexas Supreme Court · 1897
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