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RAILROAD COMPANY v. RICHMOND

86 U.S. 584 (____)

19 Wall. 584

RAILROAD COMPANY v. RICHMOND ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.F. Wilson, for the plaintiff in error; Messrs. Platt Smith and J.M. Griffith, contra.

Mr. Justice FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court, as follows:

There is no question about the power of the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Company to make the contract in controversy with the elevator company; and if there were any, it would not be one within our province, upon the present appeal, to decide. The railroad company was obliged to discharge the grain it carried in its cars at the terminus of its road; and in securing the use...

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