St. Louis, A. & T. H. R. v. Indianapolis & St. L. R.

DRUMMOND, Circuit Judge.

This is a hill filed by the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company against the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company, and other railroad companies, to enforce the obligations of a contract, part of which was a lease made in 1807, between the parties, and of which some of the defendants were guarantors. 2

In the bill the plaintiff is alleged to be a corporation created under the laws of Illinois. and the defendants are alleged to be corporations created under the laws of Indiana and of Pennsylvania.

We propose now to decide but two questions in the case:…