Illinois Central Railroad v. Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

This case affords another example1 of the occult science of drafting big contracts for big undertakings in which elaborate recitals, detailed descriptions and nice definitions, cautiously conjunctive and disjunctive statements and restatements, wondrously complex formu-lae, deftly balanced essential and nonessential, superior and subordinate stipulations, exceptions and exclusions and provisos, intricately interwoven references back and references forward, multicolored exhibits, and artistically arranged divisions and subdivisions, often crowd out the few…