Page:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 3.djvu/608

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DINSMOEE V. h., 5. A. & 0. E. 00. 601 �named, apd the matter having been heard by Mr. Justice Harlan, an interlocutory injunction was granted by him in the foUowing terms : �"Corne now the parties, by their solicitors and attorheys, and, as heretofore ordered, the defendant is required to show cause why a provisional and preliminary injiinotion shall not be made and issue herein, aceording to the prayer of the bill of complaint in that behalf ; and the court having heard the argument of the solicitors and counsel of the parties, and being sufficiently advised, does order, adjudge, and decree that, until the further order of the court on the final hearing of this cause, the defendant, its agents, oflScers, servants, and employes be, and they hereby are, severally, restrained from interferiug ^vith or disturbing in any manner the enjoyment by the Adams Express Company of the facilities now ac- corded to it by the defendant upon its lines of railway, for the transaction of the business of the said Adams Express Company, and of the express business by the public confided to it ; that the defendant shall reçoive for transportation the express matter and messengers of the Adams Express Com- pany at ail its depôts and stations, and transport the same to destination, without molestat ion or hindrance, upon the same terms as to compensation for freight or passage money, and by the same train that it receives and transports express mat' ter and messengers for any other express company, or for any other part or portion of the public; and it is adjudged and decreed that the said defendant has no lawful right to make any contract of any kind with any person, firm, or corpora- tion, whereby it shall grant any rights, privileges, accommo- dations, or facilities over its lines of railway which will prevent the said defendant from granting the same or equal rights, privileges, accommodations, and facilities to the Ad- ams Express Company, or to any other portion of the public desiring to have, occupy, enjoy, and possess the same, and upon the same and equal terms as are offered by or afforded. to any other person, firm, or corporation. And the defendant is forbidden to interfere with any of the express matter or messengers of the Adams Express Company, and from exclud- ����