Beals v. Illinois, Missouri & Texas Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This was a suit in equity by Beals, a citizen of New York, against the- Illinois, Missouri and Texas Railway Company, the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad, and the Cape Girardeau Southwestern Railway Company, all three corporations of Missourij and Thilenius and Blow, trustees of the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad, and Fletcher, all three citizens of Missouri.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This was a suit in equity by Beals, a citizen of New York, against the- Illinois, Missouri and Texas Railway Company, the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad, and the Cape Girardeau Southwestern Railway Company, all three corporations of Missourij and Thilenius and Blow, trustees of the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad, and Fletcher, all three citizens of Missouri. The amended bill (which .was the only one copied in the transcript of the record) alleged that in April, 1871, the Cape Girardeau and…
1Opinion of the Court
•Mr. Justice Gray,
after stating the case as aboye, delivered the opinion of the court.-
' The irregular form in which the plaintiff’s case is-presented need not be dwelt upon, because, in any possible aspect of the controversy between the parties, the result is not doubtful.
The former- judgment, upon which the plaintiff anticipated that the defendants .would rely, is not described in the amended -.bill otherwise than by reference to a plea t.o the-original bill, neither of which.fisc-made part of the record transmitted to ■this court. But the, pleas -to the amended bill clearly identify, the…
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