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Has the Circuit Court jurisdiction when a subordinate municipal

body, exercising clear and undisputed power, seeks to impair the obliga-

tion of a contract made with the state, or must the remedies in the state

courts be first exhausted before the power of the Federal Court can be

invoked for protection?

IN THE

United States Circuit Court of Appeals,

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT.

The City and County of San Francisco, a

Municipal Corporation ; P. H. McCarthy,

as Mayor of the City and County of San

Francisco and Ex-officio President of the

Board of Supervisors of the City and

County of San Francisco, et als.,

Appellants,

vs.

United Railroads of San Francisco,

a Corporation,

Appellee.

y No. 1922.

ORAL ARGUMENT OF WILLIAM M. ABBOTT FOR AP-

PELLEE ON JURISDICTION OF THE COURT.

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