CONTINENTAL ASSURANCE CO.

v.

TENNESSEE

Citator

Cited By

• Burford v. SUN OIL Co., 319 U.S. 315 (U.S. 1943)
  …ngress. The only limitations upon the exercise of diversity jurisdiction — apart from that which Congress made in the Johnson Act — are, broadly speaking, those illustrated by Railroad Comm’n v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co., 310 U. S. 573, as amended in 311 U. S. 614-15; Railroad Comm’n v. Pullman Co., 312 U. S. 496; and Chicago v. Fieldcrest Dairies, 316 U. S. 168. In Rowan & Nichols the claim based upon state law was derived from a statute requiring proration on a “reasonable basis,” and it was not clear from…

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• Ala. Pub. Serv. Comm'n v. S. Ry. Co., 341 U.S. 341 (U.S. 1951)
  …e pursued through the state courts. Burford v. Sun Oil Co., 319 U. S. 315 (1943); Railroad Commission of Texas v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co., 311 U. S. 570, 577 (1941); Railroad Commission of Texas v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co., 310 U. S. 573, as amended, 311 U. S. 614, 615 (1940). The Johnson Act, 48 Stat. 775 (1934), now 28 U. S. C. (Supp. III) § 1342, does not affect the result in this case. That Act deprived federal district courts of jurisdiction to enjoin enforcement of certain state administrative orders a…

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• First Am. Bank & Tr. Co. v. Ellwein, 474 F.2d 933 (8th Cir. 1973)
  …Ed. 1424] (1943); Railroad Commission of Texas v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co., 311 U.S. 570, 577, [61 S.Ct 343, 346, 85 L.Ed. 358] (1941); Railroad Commission of Texas v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co., 310 U.S. 573, [60 S.Ct. 1021, 84 L.Ed. 1368], as amended, 311 U.S. 614, 615, [61 S.Ct. 66, 85 L.Ed. 390] (1940). [Id. at 349-350, 71 S.Ct. at 768-769 (footnotes omitted).] As already mentioned, the federal district court denied preliminary re [*936] lief on grounds of abstention but the final judgment in form dismisse…