Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi; Henry C. Niles, Judge. Bill by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company against the Western Union Telegraph Company. From a decree dismissing the original bill and the supplemental bill, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
• WALKER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the original bill and a supplemental bill filed in the District Court That decree followed a motion of the defendant to dismiss the bill for the reason that the merits of the cause have been fully adjudicated adversely to the complainant in a suit instituted by it in a court of the state of Mississippi against the defendant, and to dismiss the supplemental bill for die reason that the same was filed in violation of an injunction issued by the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky in a suit…
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