New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railway Co. v. Mississippi Ex Rel. District Attorney
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE OIROUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OE MISSISSIPPI. This was a petition for mandamus by the Attorney-General of the State of Mississippi on behalf of the State, brought in the courts of that- State, and removed to the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Southern District thereof, to compel the plaintiff in error, as defendant below, to remove a bridge alleged to have been constructed by it without a draw across Pearl River,'…
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IN ERROR TO THE OIROUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OE MISSISSIPPI. This was a petition for mandamus by the Attorney-General of the State of Mississippi on behalf of the State, brought in the courts of that- State, and removed to the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Southern District thereof, to compel the plaintiff in error, as defendant below, to remove a bridge alleged to have been constructed by it without a draw across Pearl River,' and in lieu thereof to construct and maintain a bridge which should have, in the central part of the channel, a'…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
■ This case has been heretofore in this court upon a question qf jurisdiction, and is reported as Railroad Co. v. Mississippi, 102 U. S. 135. The Supreme Court of Mississippi, in accordance with our decision, reversed the judgment of the inferior State court, with directions to set aside all orders made subsequent to the presentation of the company’s petition and bond for the removal of the cause, and to proceed no further. The case was thereafter tried in the Circuit Court of the United States. The object of the suit is, by mandamus, to compel the railroad company, whose line extends from…
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