SOUTH CAROLINA STATE P. A. v. SEABOARD AIR LINE R. CO.

Nos. 3751, 3752, 3754.

124 F.Supp. 533 (1954)

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS AUTHORITY, Plaintiff, v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY and North Charleston Terminal Company, Defendants. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS AUTHORITY, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY and North Charleston Terminal Company, Defendants. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE PORTS AUTHORITY, Plaintiff, v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY and North Charleston Terminal Company, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

September 23, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert McC. Figg, Jr., Charleston, S. C., D. W. Robinson, Jr., Columbia, S. C., for plaintiff.

Buist & Buist, Charleston, S. C., James S. Cremins, Norfolk, Va., for defendant Seaboard Air Line R. Co.; Barnwell & Whaley, Charleston, S. C., for defendant Southern R. Co.; Hagood, Rivers & Young, Charleston, S. C., for defendant Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.; Coming B. Gibbs, Charleston, S. C., for defendant North Charleston Terminal Co.


WYCHE, District Judge.

These actions were removed from the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, South Carolina, under Section 1441(a), U.S.C.A., Title 28, which authorizes the removal of "any civil action * * * of which the district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction * * *." The question has arisen whether they are actions of which this Court has original jurisdiction, and the actions have been consolidated for the purpose of its determination...

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