Titus v. Mabee
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a bill in chancery, filed by complainants against defendants, for an injunction to restrain them from interfering or meddling with certain property levied upon by defendant Brown, as sheriff, by virtue of two executions in favor of the other defendants severally, and prays for relief, and that the injunction be made perpetual.
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This was a bill in chancery, filed by complainants against defendants, for an injunction to restrain them from interfering or meddling with certain property levied upon by defendant Brown, as sheriff, by virtue of two executions in favor of the other defendants severally, and prays for relief, and that the injunction be made perpetual. The bill gives a detailed history of the organization and building, and financial affairs, and changes in what is now known as the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad Company, until December 15,1856, when Joel A. Matteson and Elisha C. Litchfield became the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was a bill filed, by the trustees of the bondholders of the St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad, against Mabee, Pitts and Brown, — the first two, judgment creditors of the road, and the last the sheriff of Madison county. The object of the bill was to enjoin the sheriff from selling a freight car, an iron safe and an iron planing machine, to satisfy executions which had been issued upon their judgments. On the sixth day of April, 1857, the railroad, with its lands, track, furniture, equipments and personal property, was conveyed to complainants in trust, to secure bondholders of the…
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