Dillingham, Receiver v. Kelly
Court of Appeals of Texas
Error from Washington. Tried below before Hon. Edward R„ Sinks. 1. The court erred in refusing to give charge number 3, asked by defendant, which is as follows. [Copied in the opinion.] The decree of foreclosure under which Frederic P. Olcott acquired the property of the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company, and the decree of confirmation thereunder, expressly relieved and discharged the property and the purchaser thereof from any and all liability of any and all kind and…
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Error from Washington. Tried below before Hon. Edward R„ Sinks. 1. The court erred in refusing to give charge number 3, asked by defendant, which is as follows. [Copied in the opinion.] The decree of foreclosure under which Frederic P. Olcott acquired the property of the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company, and the decree of confirmation thereunder, expressly relieved and discharged the property and the purchaser thereof from any and all liability of any and all kind and character, except such as in said decree of foreclosure was specially mentioned. It was stipulated in the decree and…
1Opinion of the Court
PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.
On the 26th of May, 1886, by an order of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas, sitting at Galveston, in consolidated cause number 198, in equity, then pending in said court, entitled Nelson S. Easton and James Rintoul, Trustees, and the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, Trustee, v. The Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, Nelson S. Easton, James Rintoul, and Charles Dillingham were appointed joint receivers in said cause of all the railroad’s property' and assets of said company; and on the 4th of May, 1888, said court…
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