Eastern Union Co. of Delaware, Inc. v. Moffat Tunnel Improvement District

Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

We are of the opinion that the motions of the defendant should be granted and the attachment dissolved. In view of the announced appellate disposition of the case, our reasons will not be unduly extended, but need only be sufficient to show the basis of our conclusion form the foundation for appellate action.

The sole question to be briefly discussed is the liability to suit of a public corporation—a municipal, or quasi-municipal corporation—in a State other than that of its creation.

The defendant, we think, is a public corporation. It is a…