Tullock v. Mulvane
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE-KANSAS. George P. Wescott and Samuel Hanson were complainants in a bill in equity which was filed, on January 13, 1893, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. Joab Mulvane and various other persons and corporations were ' made defendants to the bill.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE-KANSAS. George P. Wescott and Samuel Hanson were complainants in a bill in equity which was filed, on January 13, 1893, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. Joab Mulvane and various other persons and corporations were ' made defendants to the bill. The principal relief sought was to compel the specific performance of a contract alleged to have been entered into between-the complainants and Mulvane for the sale' by the latter and purchase by the farmer of all the capital stock of the Topeka Water Supply Company, a…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. J ustick Wiíitk,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The assignments of error, though fourteen in number, are reducible to three propositions.
Í. A contention that as the bond provided for a liability only ip cáse it was finally decided that the injunction was wrongfully granted, no recovery could be had upon the bond, because the stipulation between the complainants and certain of the defendants had the effect of rendering it, impossible to have a final determination in the courts of the United States whether the injunction ought originally to have been…
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