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The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado
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In Kansas City, Mo., U.S. District Judge Smith McPherson ruled unconstitutional a 1907 Missouri law barring corporations from moving suits to federal courts, granting an injunction to several railroads against enforcement by Secretary of State John E. Swanger.
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(By Associated Press.)
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 20.—Judge Smith McPherson in the United States district court here today declared unconstitutional the statute passed by the Missouri legislature in 1907 forbidding corporations from transferring suits brought against them from the state to the federal courts upon pain of forfeiture of their charters.
The application of the Rock Island, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Chicago & Alton railroads for an injunction to prevent the secretary of state, John E. Swanger from enforcing the law was granted by the court.
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Kansas City, Mo.
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Jan. 20
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Judge Smith McPherson declared unconstitutional the 1907 Missouri statute forbidding corporations from transferring suits to federal courts under threat of charter forfeiture. The court granted an injunction to the Rock Island, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and Chicago & Alton railroads preventing Secretary of State John E. Swanger from enforcing the law.