Ralston v. Crittenden
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
Motion for an Injunction. This was a motion pendente lite to restrain Thomas T. Crittenden, governor of the state of Missouri, from selling, or advertising for sale, the Hannibal & St. Joseph Eailroad.
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Motion for an Injunction. This was a motion pendente lite to restrain Thomas T. Crittenden, governor of the state of Missouri, from selling, or advertising for sale, the Hannibal & St. Joseph Eailroad. The facts upon which the motion was based are substantially as follows: On February 22,1851, an act was passed by the legislature of Missouri providing for the issue of state bonds, in the sum of one and a half million dollars, to the Hannibal & St. Joseph llailroad Company, as a loan of credit to said company. It was provided in that act that tlie bonds to bo issued shall be redeemable after…
1Opinion of the Court
In answer to an inquiry at the close of the argument by Mr. Glover, as to when the motion would be decided, Miller, Justice, said:
We will decide it now, because all three of us are agreed upon so much as is necessary to enable us to make an order refusing this application for an injunction. When that is done, the case remains, anyhow, as it is not here for -final decision, and what may come of it hereafter will be seen. The reason why I say we are all agreed that the application for this injunction cannot be sustained is that we do not agree with the complainants’ construction of the act of…
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