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EX PARTE INDIANA TRANSPORTATION CO.

No. 25, Original.

244 U.S. 456 (1917)

37 S.Ct. 717

61 L.Ed. 1253

EX PARTE INDIANA TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, PETITIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 11, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles E. Kremer and Mr. Russell Mott for petitioner.

Mr. Harry W. Standidge (by special leave) in support of return of respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

The suit in which this writ of prohibition is sought was originally a libel in personam against the petitioner, an Indiana corporation, and others, for causing the death of one Dawson through the capsizing of the steamer Eastland in the Chicago River. The libel was filed on August 21, 1915. A citation was served upon an agent of the petitioner within the district...

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