Cotting v. Kansas City Stock-Yards Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kansas
These were suits in equity, brought, the one by Charles TJ. Cot-ting-, and the other by Francis Lee Higginson, against the Kansas City Stock-Yards Company, a corporation, and others, and Louis 0. Boyle, as attorney general of the state of Kansas, to enjoin defendants from enforcing a certain act of the legislature..
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These were suits in equity, brought, the one by Charles TJ. Cot-ting-, and the other by Francis Lee Higginson, against the Kansas City Stock-Yards Company, a corporation, and others, and Louis 0. Boyle, as attorney general of the state of Kansas, to enjoin defendants from enforcing a certain act of the legislature.. Hoard upon objection by the attorney general to any proofs under the bills; his contention being that they present no cause of action, and that he is improperly made a party. Complainant Cotting is a citizen of Massachusetts, and a stockholder in the defendant corporation to the…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, District Judge
(after stating the facts). There has been some discussion about the jurisdiction of this court, hut it is not seriously challenged; and the objection by the attorney general that he is improperly made a party defendant is not well taken, as the court has jurisdiction to enjoin a state officer from enforcing an unconstitutional law. Reagan v. Trust Co., 154 U. S. 388, 14 Sup. Ct. 1047.
The complainant insists that the act is objectionable as class legislation, and is not of uniform operation; that; it is really spe-. cial legislation under the disguise of general terms, etc. These objections…
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