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Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. et al., 1950 — 340 U.S. 889 · caselaw · US
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Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. et al.
340 U.S. 889·Supreme Court of the United States·1950
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Opinion
No. 10,
Original.
Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. et al.
Eugene Cook, Attorney General of Georgia, and William L. McGovern, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for complainant. John Dickinson, Hugh B. Cox, J. Aron-son, E. H. Burgess, D. O. Mathews, James B. Osborne, W. T. Pierson, Harold A. Smith, E. Randolph Williams, D. Lynch Younger, Thomas M. Woodward, Sidney S. Alderman, William H. Swiggart, W. L. Grubbs, W. R. C. Cocke, Vernon W. Foster, Richard B. Gwathmey and R. V. Fletcher for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. et al.; and Robert W. Purcell and Horace L. Walker for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., defendants.
[MAJORITY]
Upon consideration of the motions of the defendants to dismiss and the joinder therein by the complainant,
It is ordered that the amended bill of complaint be, and the same is hereby, dismissed.
Costs, including the fee of the Special Master and his expenses, not satisfied by moneys advanced by the parties during the course of the case, are to be taxed against the defendants.