Gatch Tennant & Co. v. Mobile & O. R.

ROBERT T. ERVIN, District Judge.

The receiver in this cause was appointed on June 6, 1932, in a suit which alleged that certain judgments had been recovered against the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, and that executions would be levied on its property and it subjected to sale causing dismemberment of its line unless the court took jurisdiction and appointed a receiver to take possession of the railroad.

The order of June 6, 1932, appointed a receiver and contained certain provisions that have been uniformly found in such orders for over twenty years where railroads have been taken possession of by the…