Brooks v. Vermont Cent. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont
[In equity. Bill by Francis A. Brooks and others against the Vermont Central Railroad Company, John Gregory Smith, Worth-ington C. Smith, and Joseph Clark to foreclose a mortgage, and for other relief. Hearing upon pleas and demurrer.
1Opinion of the Court
WHEELER, District Judge.
This bill is brought by the orators, as holders to a large amount of first mortgage bonds of the defendant railroad company, in behalf of themselves and other like holders, not citizens of the state of Vermont, to foreclose the mortgage, remove the trustees in the mortgage, who are the other defendants, and have the mortgaged property declared to be free from any lien claimed upon' it in favor of debts held by the trustees, created in its management subsequent to the mortgage. To so much of the bill as goes for a foreclosure, the railroad company has pleaded the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Miller v. Rutland & Washington RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1864
- Sturges v. KnappSupreme Court of Vermont · 1858
- Wing v. CooperSupreme Court of Vermont · 1864
- St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad v. SmithSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
- Weed v. BeebeSupreme Court of Vermont · 1849
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