Supreme Court of the United States, 1927

Fort Worth & Denver City Railway v. State

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided May 2, 1927

274 U.S. 718; 71 L. Ed. 1323; 47 S. Ct. 589; 1927 U.S. LEXIS 78 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Mr. Rush H. Holland, with whom Messrs. Ellis Douthit, J. H. Barwise, George E. Strong, and J. D. Dooley were on the brief, for plaintiff in error., Messrs. Claude Pollard, Garnett May, and D. A. Simmons were on thé brief for the State of Texas.

Cases that cite this one

25 later published cases cite this decision.

United States v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. (4th Cir. 1938)
Stephenson v. Binford (District Court, S.D. Texas 1931)
Orpheum Circuit, Inc. v. Reinecke (District Court, N.D. Illinois 1930)
Rose v. Nunnally Inv. Co. (5th Cir. 1927)
United States v. Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven R. (District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 1949)
233-5 West 125th Street Corp. v. Hoey (District Court, S.D. New York 1947)
Harrisburg Hotel Co. v. United States (3d Cir. 1944)
Lamar Hotel Corp. v. Fly (5th Cir. 1943)
Goodyear Inv. Corp. v. Campbell (6th Cir. 1943)
State Ex Rel. McCanless v. Cincinnati Southern Ry. (Tenn. 1942)
Cargill, Inc. v. United States (United States District Court for the District of Delaware 1942)
Duquesne Club v. Bell (District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania 1941)
American Inv. Securities Co. v. United States (District Court, D. Massachusetts 1939)
Hastings Pavement Co. v. Hoey (District Court, S.D. New York 1939)
Page v. M. Rich & Bros. (5th Cir. 1938)
New Haven Securities Co. v. Bitgood (2d Cir. 1937)
United States Rubber Co. v. Query (District Court, E.D. South Carolina 1937)
Peabody Co. v. United States (District Court, W.D. Tennessee 1937)
Ittleson v. Anderson (District Court, S.D. New York 1933)
Automatic Fire Alarm Co. of Delaware v. Bowers (District Court, S.D. New York 1931)
Argonaut Consol. Min. Co. v. Anderson (District Court, S.D. New York 1930)
Harmar Coal Co. v. Heiner (3d Cir. 1929)
United States v. Hotchkiss Redwood Co. (9th Cir. 1928)
Harmar Coal Co. v. Heiner (District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania 1928)
Western Pac. R. v. Bowers (District Court, S.D. New York 1927)

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Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

Dismissed as frivolous on the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Town of Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195; and Seaboard Air Line v. Padgett, 236 U. S. 668, 671.

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