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BLAIR v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Nos. 331, 332, 333, 334, 335 and 336.

201 U.S. 400 (1906)

BLAIR v. CITY OF CHICAGO. NORTH CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY v. BLAIR. CITY OF CHICAGO v. FETZER. BLAIR v. CITY OF CHICAGO. CHICAGO WEST DIVISION RAILWAY COMPANY v. BLAIR. CITY OF CHICAGO v. FETZER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decision announced March 12, 1906.

Opinion filed April 2, 1906.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Clarence S. Darrow, Mr. Glenn Edward Plumb and Mr. Edgar B. Tolman, with whom Mr. James Hamilton Lewis was on the brief, for the city of Chicago.

Mr. Brainard Tolles, Mr. John S. Miller and Mr. John G. Johnson, with whom Mr. Joseph S. Auerbach, Mr. W.W. Gurley, Mr. John P. Wilson and Mr. John J. Herrick were on the briefs, for the receivers and the railway corporations.

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

The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court to render the original judgments against the companies and to maintain the ancillary bill is challenged at the outset. These objections require notice before considering the controversy upon its merits. It is insisted that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction to render the judgments at law because...

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