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, ceded to the United States. From these conclusions it, of necessity, follows that the warrants issued by the justice of the peace of Daw:es county, upon which the petitioner was arrested by the sheriff, were so issued without due warrant of law; the informations filed with the justice sh,owing upon their face that the acts complained of had not been done within the jurisdiction of the state, and that they could not be held to be in violation of the statutes of .the state. .This geing'. so, the petitioner is clearly deprived of his liberty without due warrant of law, and is therefore entitled tobe discharged from arrest.
IKTERSTATE COMMEIt;CE COl\1Mn:lSWN v. SOUTHERN PAC. co. et a!.
(Circuit Court, D. Colorado. No. 3,377.
May 12, 1896.)
,JURISDICTION OF OmCUIT COURTS- SUtTS TO El!,TORCE ORDERS OF INTERSTATE COMMERC,E CO}fMIS8ION. . '
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Where a number of railroads, operated under a common control and management, establish a rate interdicted by an order of the interstate commerce commission, the, itet of olle of the companies in charging freight atsuchrate in a particular Judicial ,district, to be carried over the various lines, is a violation or disobediencf!' of the order in such district, within the meaning of section 16: of the interstate commerce act, as amended in 1889 (25 Stat. 860), so as to give the, circuit court of that district jurisdiction of a suit by the commission toenfurce its order against all the com;panies. .
. This was a suit by the'Interstate Oommerce Commission against the' ComJ?any and other railroad companies to enforce an ot'dermade by the 'commission in respect to certain rates for transportation of freight. , H. V. Johnson;for Wolcott & 'Yaile, Chas. E. Gast, and H.T. Rogers, for defendants. HALLETT;District Judge. This is a bill by the interstate commerce commil'lsion against the Southern Pacific Company and several other railroad companies, to enforce an order of the commission, made November 25, 189l5, in a suit of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company against the said railroad companies. The Southern Pacific Company has filed a plea to the jurisdiction, alleging that it is not an inhabitant of this that it is a corporation of the state of Kentucky, and thaCit has .its principal office in the city of San Francisco, in the state,o!California. Following this there is in the plea this language: . "Thisdefendl;lyt further a:lleges that 110 violation or disobedience on its part of any order or requirement of the interstate commerce commission, as set forth in the petition herein, or of any order or requirement of said interstate commerce commission, has happened Within the said district of Colorado."
The order of the conuD:ission relates to charges for transportation between Pueblo, Colo., and San Francisco, Cal., as to which it is
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averred that the respondent roads are "under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment" between the said points. Section 16 of the interstate commerce act, as amended in 1889 (25 Stat. 860), provides that a petition of this kind shall be filed "in the judicial district in which the common carrier complained of has its principal office, or in which the violation or disobedience of such order or requirement shall happen." This is not the district in which the Southern Pacific Company has its principal office, but it is the dish-ict in which the violation or disobedience of the order of the commission has happened. 'l'he pleader is careful to state that no violation or disobedience of the order has occurred in this district on the part of respondent, but it does not say what has been done by the co-respondents. The fact appears to be that the Southern Pacific Company has lines in California, and in some of the states and territories between California and Colorado, which connect with lines of the other respondents, extending into and through the state of Colorado and to the city of Pueblo. If all these roads are operated under a common control, management, or arrangement in making the rates interdicted by the interstate commission, the act of one in this district is the act of all, and the violation or disobedience of the order of the commission by all the roads may be said to take place in this district, as well as the district of California. In the case cited from 6 C. C. A. 653, 57 Fed. 948 (Interstate Commerce Commission v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.), jurisdiction was maintained on the ground that the principal office of the respondent was in the city of New York. 'l'here is nothing in that case, touching the other clause of section 16 of the act, as to the place in which a violation or disobedience of an order of the commission shall be said to occur; and whether, under that clause, all lines forming a continuous route of transportation between points remote from each other, such as Pueblo and San I!'rancisco, shall be taken to be a single line, for the purposes of the act. The plea to the jurisdiction will be overruled.
UNITED STATES v. BAUM. (Circuit Court, D. Utah. No. 10. April 6, 1896.)
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JURISDICTION OF FEDERAL COURTS CAUSES-ADULTERY IN UTAH.
ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES -
PENDING
Adultery committed in Utah prior to its admission as a state, being a crime against the United States, a prosecution therefor pending in a territorial court at the time of admission was transferable, under the provisions of the enabling act (28 Stat. 111), and the schedule annexed to the state constitution (article 24, § 7), to the proper United States circuit court. The government of the United States retains constitutional power to punish, through its courts, a crime committed against it in one of tlJe territories, although such territory is admitted as a state pending the prosecution, and before conviction.
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SAME-CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.