Venner v. Denver Union Water Co.

On the 1st day of October, 1889, the Mountain Water Company executed forty bonds, by each of which it promised to pay the bearer, on the 1st day of July, 1909, the sum of $1,000, with interest from date, payable on the first days of January and July of each year until maturity; and, to secure the payment of the bonds and interest, executed to John L. McNeil and the acting sheriff of Arapahoe county, as trustees, a mortgage of all its real estate, and all its other property and rights, including its franchises. These bonds were duly issued and sold, and, in the year 1890, were the property of…