Insurance Co. v. Union Canal Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gibson, C. J.: —

I am asked to compel the company to execute a mortgage of its works to the complainants, or declare the latter to be entitled to a preference under the mortgage executed to Mr. Roberts in trust for the general creditors; to decree that the company pay the complainants the whole of their principal and interest in preference to any other class of its creditors; that it come to an account of the tolls received, and apply the tolls which may accrue to the interest due to the complainants; that it be restrained, in the mean time, from…