Legal Opinion

Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Central Stock Yards Co.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 1, 1909No. 51PublishedCited by 76 opinions

ERROR TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OF THE STATE OP KENTUCKY.. • The facts are stated in the opinion. So far as concerns interstate shipments of live stock, the whole matter is concluded by the judgment of the Federal court in the former litigation in Central Stock Yards Co. v. Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., 192 U. S. 568, and that judgment is a bar to the relief sought in this case as to such interstate shipments.

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ERROR TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OF THE STATE OP KENTUCKY.. • The facts are stated in the opinion. So far as concerns interstate shipments of live stock, the whole matter is concluded by the judgment of the Federal court in the former litigation in Central Stock Yards Co. v. Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., 192 U. S. 568, and that judgment is a bar to the relief sought in this case as to such interstate shipments. Dupasseur v. Rocherau, 21 Wall. 130; Embry v. Palmer, 107 U. S. 3; Crescent City Live Stock Co. v. Butchers’ Union Slaughter House Co., 120 U. S. 141; Deposit Bank v. Frankfort, 191…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes

This is a proceeding in equity prosecuted in the courts of Kentucky, similar in the main to one in the United States courts between the same parties,.that was decided by the Circuit Court of Appeals in 118 Fed. Rep. 113, and by this court in 192 U. S. 568. The latter was brought by the Central Stock Yards Company, a Delaware corporation, against the Railroad Company,., a Kentucky corporation, to compel it to receive live stock tendered to it outside the State of Kentucky for the Central Stock Yards station, and to deliver the same at a point of physical connection between its road and the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Roller v. HollySupreme Court of the United States · 1900
  2. McNeill v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1906
  3. Security Trust & Safety Vault Co. v. City of LexingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
  4. Central Stock Yards Co. v. Louisville & Nashville Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904
  5. Moody v. Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West RailroadSupreme Court of Florida · 1884

3Cited by76 opinions

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  3. Coe v. Armour Fertilizer WorksSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  4. Pacific Telephone Etc. Co. v. EshlemanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1913
  5. Pennsylvania Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1915

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