U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana April 15, 1876 (Morgan v. New Orleans, M. & T. R.)

BRADLEY, Circuit Justice.

The contract in this case was made for the purpose'of putting an end to a ruinous competition which was being carried on between the two parties to it, in the freight and passenger business between Mobile and New Orleans, and for uniting their interest in that business and in a projected railroad business between New Orleans and Texas.