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EX PARTE CHICAGO, R.I. & PAC. RY.

No. 24, Original.

255 U.S. 273 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 288

65 L.Ed. 631

EX PARTE IN THE MATTER OF CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, PETITIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 28, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lawrence Maxwell and Mr. William L. Day, with whom Mr. Joseph S. Graydon was on the briefs, for petitioner.

Mr. Thurlow M. Gordon, with whom Mr. Joseph P. Cotton was on the brief, for other bondholders, in opposition to the petition.

Mr. Geo. D. Welles, with whom Mr. Thos. H. Tracy was on the brief, for Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad Company, in opposition to the petition.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, commonly called the Rock Island, filed in this court a petition in which it alleged that the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, was undertaking to proceed against it personally in a suit therein pending; that the Rock Island had not voluntarily become a party to the suit, had not been served with process...

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