LEONARD v. VICKSBURG & c. R.R. CO.

No. 233.

198 U.S. 416 (1905)

LEONARD v. VICKSBURG, SHREVEPORT AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1905.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.H. Leonard and Mr. William P. Hall for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Harry H. Hall and Mr. Frank P. Stubbs, with whom Mr. W.H. Wise was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

We assume from the errors assigned, and no other grounds are indicated by the record, that Federal questions in two aspects are relied on to justify this writ of error.

First. The construction and application of the acts of Congress of 1849, 1850 and 1856, taken with other acts referred to.

But as to this it should be pointed out in the first...

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