St. Clair County v. Interstate Sand & Car Transfer Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois.
1Per curiam
The plaintiff in error brought suit to recover certain penalties aggregating $240,000, being $3 per car for 80,000 railroad cars carried over the Mississippi river on a ferry maintained by the defendant in error between the city of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, and the city of East St. Louis, in the county of St. Clair, in the state of Illinois, upon the ground that the defendant in error had failed to procure from the plaintiff in error a license to maintain and operate such ferry, pursuant to the requirements of an act entitled “An act to revise the law in relation to ferries,” in…
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- Osborne v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- In Re LennonSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Holt v. Indiana Manuf'g Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1897
- Town of Westerly v. Westerly WaterworksCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1896
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- Wright v. MacFarlane & Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1903