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CALIFORNIA v. PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

Nos. 660, 661, 662, 663, 664, 1157.

127 U.S. 1 (1888)

CALIFORNIA v. CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. SAME v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. SAME v. NORTHERN RAILWAY CO. SAME v. CALIFORNIA PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. SAME v. CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. SAME v. CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 30, 1888.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.M. Wilson for plaintiffs in error. Mr. Samuel Shellabarger was with him on the brief. Mr. G.A. Johnson, Attorney General of California, filed a brief for same.

Mr. George F. Edmunds, Mr. William M. Evarts, and Mr. Creed Haymond for defendants in error.

Mr. Harvey S. Brown also filed briefs and an argument for defendants in error in Nos. 660, 661, 662, and 663.

Mr. George A. Johnson, Attorney General of California, closed for plaintiff in error.

MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases are substantially similar to those of Santa Clara County v. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and the other cases decided at the same time, and reported in 118 U.S. 394. It will be unnecessary, therefore, to set out many provisions of the Constitution and laws of the United States and of California which are...

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