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GEORGIA BANKING CO. v. SMITH

No. 28.

128 U.S. 174 (1888)

9 S.Ct. 47

32 L.Ed. 377

GEORGIA RAILROAD AND BANKING COMPANY v. SMITH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 29, 1888.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward Baxter for plaintiff in error. Mr. Joseph B. Cumming filed a brief for the same.

Mr. Clifford Anderson for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

As appears from the statement of the case, the contention in the court below of the company, the plaintiff in error here, so far as it embraced any Federal question, was that the 12th section of its charter constituted a grant of a right to charge the rates therein named; that it built its road and established its business with this grant as a part of its charter; and that such a grant...

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