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Pullman Co. v. Croom

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 22, 1913No. Nos. 28 and 158PublishedCited by 17 opinions

APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. These are appeals from orders of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida.

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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. These are appeals from orders of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida. The Pullman Company, appellant herein, in its complaint filed in the court below, in the first case (No. 28 of this term), alleged that it was an Illinois corporation, engaged in furnishing to railroad companies under contract parlor, dining and sleeping cars in Florida and other States and had complied with the laws of Florida requisite to engaging in that business; that the defendant, A. C.…

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Section 266 of the Judicial Code, practically a reenactment of § 17 of the act of June 18, 1910 (c. 309, 36 Stat. 539, 557), regulates the granting of injunctions by Federal courts in cases depending upon the alleged repugnancy of state statutes to the Federal Constitution. The requirement is that applications for temporary injunction in such cases shall be heard before three judges, one of whom shall be a justice of this court or a circuit judge, and an appeal from an order granting or denying an interlocutory injunction in such cases may be prosecuted…

3Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Warner Valley Stock Co. v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. United States v. BoutwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
  3. Richardson v. McChesneySupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  4. United States Ex Rel. Bernardin v. ButterworthSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
  5. Caledonian Coal Co. v. BakerSupreme Court of the United States · 1905

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4Cited by17 opinions

  1. Irwin v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
  2. Pullman Co. v. KnottSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  3. Knights v. Treasurer & Receiver GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
  4. LeCrone v. McAdooSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
  5. Bowers v. American Surety Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1929

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