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HOUSTON & TEXAS CENT. R. CO. v. SHIRLEY

111 U.S. 358 (1884)

HOUSTON & TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY & Others v. SHIRLEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 14th, 1884.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John G. Winter for appellants.

Mr. J. Hubley Ashton for appellee.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order remanding a cause removed from a State court. The record shows that the suit was begun by Shirley, the appellee, a citizen of Texas, on the 16th of July, 1870, in the District Court of McLennan County, Texas, against the Waco Tap Railroad Company, a Texas corporation, to recover a balance claimed to be due on a contract for the construction of the railroad of the defendant...

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