Harriman v. Northern Securities Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. Edward H. Harrima-n, Winslow S. Pierce, Oregon Short Line Railroad Company and The Equitable Trust Company of New York exhibited their bill against the Northern Securities Company in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, April 20, 1904, on which, with accompanying affidavits and exhibits, a restraining order was issued, pending an application for an injunction .as prayed in the…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. Edward H. Harrima-n, Winslow S. Pierce, Oregon Short Line Railroad Company and The Equitable Trust Company of New York exhibited their bill against the Northern Securities Company in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, April 20, 1904, on which, with accompanying affidavits and exhibits, a restraining order was issued, pending an application for an injunction .as prayed in the bill. April 26 an amended bill was filed, and the application for a preliminary injunction was heard May 20, 21 and'23…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
In applying to this court for the writ of certiorari counsel for complainants insisted that the Circuit Court of Appeals had practically disposed of the entire controversy on the merits, although its decree only reversed the order of the Circuit Court granting the preliminary injunction. We accepted that view and granted the writ, in the circumstances, notwithstanding the decree was not final. In our opinion the record presented the whole case to that court, in such wise, that it might properly have been finally disposed of in terms by its decree, in accordance with the well settled rule upon…
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