ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA


88 U.S. 492 (____)

21 Wall. 492

ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.W. McFarland, for the railroad company, plaintiff in error, argued —

Mr. S.E. Dimmick, attorney-general of Pennsylvania (with whom was Mr. L.D. Gilbert), contra.


Mr. Justice HUNT delivered the opinion of the court.

It is argued, in the first place, that the Erie company is not doing business in the State, in the sense intended by the act of 1868. To this argument the answer is twofold:

First. The Supreme Court of that State has held that this "company was doing business in the State in the sense of that act." This construction of a State statute by the Supreme Court of the...

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