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Keels v. Central Railroad Company

147 U.S. 37437 L. Ed. 208·Supreme Court of the United States·1892

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Opinion

Keels v. Central Railroad Company. Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina. No. 1207. Argued with No. 1206. [MAJORITY — Mr. Justice Brown.] Mr. Justice Brown. As the facts of this case are substantially the same as the one just decided, the decision must be the same. Mr. Samuel Lord, (with whom were, on the brief, Mr. D. A. Townsend, Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, and Mr. Ira B. Jones,) for appellants. Mr. Henry A. M. Smith, (with whom was Mr. J. T. Barron on the brief,) for appellee. The decree .of the court below will, therefore, be reversed, and .the case remanded, with directions to dismiss the bill.