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ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN & S. RY. CO. v. S. EXPRESS CO.

117 U.S. 1 (1886)

ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN & SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY. MEMPHIS & LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD COMPANY v. SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY. MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. DINSMORE, PRESIDENT & SHAREHOLDER IN ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1886.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.F. Dillon, Mr. R.J. Morgan, Mr. B.C. Brown and Mr. J.O. Broadhead for appellants. Mr. Sidney Bartlett and Mr. Wager Swayne were with them on the brief.

Mr. Clarence A. Seward, Mr. George F. Edmunds and Mr. John A. Campbell for appellees. Mr. F.E. Whitfield was with them on the brief.

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

These suits present substantially the same questions and may properly be considered together. They were each brought by an express company against a railway company to restrain the railway company from interfering with or disturbing in any manner the facilities theretofore afforded the express company for doing its business on the railway of the railway company.

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