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PULLMAN CO. v. KANSAS

No. 5.

216 U.S. 56 (1910)

PULLMAN COMPANY v. STATE OF KANSAS EX REL. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 31, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, with whom Mr. Charles Blood Smith, Mr. Francis B. Daniels and Mr. Gustavus D. Fernald for plaintiff in error.1

Mr. Rush Taggart and Mr. Henry D. Estabrook, with whom Mr. John F. Dillon, Mr. George H. Fearons, and Mr. Charles Blood Smith were on the brief, for plaintiff in error in No. 4, argued simultaneously herewith.1

Mr. C.C. Coleman, with whom Mr. Fred S. Jackson, Attorney General of the State of Kansas, was on the brief, for defendant in error in this case and in No. 4, argued simultaneously herewith.1

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a proceeding in quo warranto, instituted by the State in the Supreme Court of Kansas against the Pullman Company, a corporation of Illinois, in which the State, by its petition, prays that the defendant be required to show by what authority it exercises within Kansas the corporate right and power of charging compensation for the use of reserved seats in...

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