Beardsley v. Arkansas & Louisiana Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. Paul F. Beardsley filed his bill in the Circuit Court of the.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. Paul F. Beardsley filed his bill in the Circuit Court of the. United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas against John D. Beardsley and the Arkansas and Louisiana Railway Company to enforce certain rights in the railway under certain alleged trusts, which resulted in a final decree, February 24,1887. The decree adjudged that complainant, Paul F. Beardsley, pay to defendant J. D. Beardsley the sum of $7756.29 within thirty days, with interest from December 24, 1886, and that, upon such payment,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mi?.. Chief Justice' Fullee,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
This appeal was perfected as to the Arkansas and Louisiana Railway Company only by the giving of bond as required by statute. Rev. Stat. §§ 1000, 1012. . And while the omission of the bond does hot necessarily avoid an appeal, if otherwise properly taken, and, in proper cases, this court may; permit the bond to be supplied, no application for such relief has been made in this case, nor could it properly be accorded after the lapse of nearly four years since the decree.- The appeal might, therefore, well be…
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