Central Bank & Trust Corp. v. Cleveland
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of South Carolina, at Greenville; Joseph T. Johnson, Judge. Bill by the Central Bank & Trust Corporation as mortgagee, against the Greenville & Western Railway Company, for foreclosure and sale of the railroad. Upon appointment of a receiver and an order discontinuing operation of trains, R. Mays Cleveland and others intervene.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of South Carolina, at Greenville; Joseph T. Johnson, Judge. Bill by the Central Bank & Trust Corporation as mortgagee, against the Greenville & Western Railway Company, for foreclosure and sale of the railroad. Upon appointment of a receiver and an order discontinuing operation of trains, R. Mays Cleveland and others intervene. From an order appointing a co-receiver of the defendant, and directing receivers to issue receivers’ certificates, the Central Bank & Trust Corporation and others appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, District Judge.
This is an appeal from an order appointing a co-receiver of tire defendant the Greenville & Western Railway Company, and directing the receivers to issue receivers’ certificates not to exceed the sum of $3,000, and use the proceeds thereof, or so much as may be necessary, in repairing the roadbed of the railway, so as,to make it safe to operate trains over the same,.and, as soon as trains can be safely run over the road, to resume the operation thereof. It *531appears that the Greenville & Western Railway Company, owner of a small railway covering some 23 miles of railway in…
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