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PIERCE v. SOMERSET RAILWAY

No. 12.

171 U.S. 641 (1898)

19 S.Ct. 64

43 L.Ed. 316

PIERCE, v. SOMERSET RAILWAY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 31, 1898.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. D.D. Stewart for plaintiffs in error. Mr. H.B. Cleaves was with him on the brief.

Mr. Edmund F. Webb and Mr. Josiah H. Drummond for defendants in error. Mr. Joseph W. Symonds was with them on the brief.

MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error directed to the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, for the purpose of reviewing a judgment of that court in favor of the defendant in error, who was plaintiff below. 88 Maine, 86-100. The facts necessary to an understanding of the case are as follows:

The Somerset Railroad Company was organized in 1871, pursuant to an act of the legislature of the State of Maine, for...

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