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PHILADELPHIA AND WILMINGTON RAILROAD CO. v. STATE OF MARYLAND

51 U.S. 376 (____)

10 How. 376

THE PHILADELPHIA AND WILMINGTON RAILROAD COMPANY, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. THE STATE OF MARYLAND.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Meredith, for the defendant in error, and submitted on printed points by Mr. Reverdy Johnson, for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Johnson, for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error is a corporation composed of several railroad companies which had been previously chartered by the States of Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania; and which, by corresponding laws of the respective States, were united together, and form one corporation under the name and style of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company....

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