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UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MYERS

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115 U.S. 1 (1885)

5 S.Ct. 1113

29 L.Ed. 319

UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MYERS. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. CITY OF KANSAS. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. KNUTH. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. HARWOOD. TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. McALLISTER. TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. KIRK. TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MURPHY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 4, 1885.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John F. Dillon for Union Pacific Railway Company.

Mr. Walter D. Davidge, Mr. John F. Dillon, Mr. John C. Brown, and Mr. Wager Swayne for Texas & Pacific Railway Company.

Mr. W. Hallett Phillips for all defendants in error.

Mr. A.H. Garland for defendants in error in Texas & Pacific cases.

Mr. T.P. Fenlon filed a brief for Myers, defendant in error.

Mr. W.H. Munger and Mr. E.H. Gray filed a brief for Knuth, defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The principal question involved in these cases is whether a suit brought in a State court against a corporation of the United States may be removed by such corporation into the Circuit Court of the United States, on the ground of its being a corporation organized under a law of the United States. The plaintiff in error in four of the cases is the Union Pacific Railway Company, and in the other three cases is...

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