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Old Dominion Iron & Nail Works Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company and City of Richmond, 1917 — 242 U.S. 623 · caselaw · US
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Old Dominion Iron & Nail Works Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company and City of Richmond
242 U.S. 623·Supreme Court of the United States·1917
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No. 378.
Old Dominion Iron & Nail Works Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company and City of Richmond.
In error to the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of Virginia.
Motion to dismiss submitted January 15, 1917.
Decided January 29, 1917.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
Dismissed for the want of jurisdiction upon the authority of (1) Eustis v. Bolles, 150 U. S. 361; Leathe v. Thomas, 207 U. S. 93; Mellon Company v. McCafferty, 239 U. S. 134; (2) Pierce v. Southern Railway, 171 U. S. 641; Preston v. Chicago, 226 U. S. 447, 450; Wood v. Chesbrough, 228 U. S. 672, 677; (3) Moran v. Horsky, 178 U. S. 205. Mr. Eppa Hunton, Jr., Mr. E. Randolph Williams and Mr. Henry W. Anderson for the plaintiff in error. Mr. H. R. Pollard and Mr. Henry Taylor, Jr., for the defendants in error.