McNulta v. Lochridge
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE ILLINOIS. This was a.motion- to dismiss a writ of error, or affirm the judgment of the court below upon the following state of facts:; : . In July, T887, Loch ridge, the defendant in error, began two suits in the Circuit Court of Christian County, Illinois, against McNulta, the plaintiff in error, as receiver of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company, to recover, damages for the death of James and Mary E. Molohon, alleged…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE ILLINOIS. This was a.motion- to dismiss a writ of error, or affirm the judgment of the court below upon the following state of facts:; : . In July, T887, Loch ridge, the defendant in error, began two suits in the Circuit Court of Christian County, Illinois, against McNulta, the plaintiff in error, as receiver of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company, to recover, damages for the death of James and Mary E. Molohon, alleged to have been occasioned;- by the negligent management of an engine at a public crossing. At the time the cause of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The substance of the first assignment’of error is that under the act of March 3, 1887, plaintiff was not entitled to maintain a suit against McNulta, as receiver, for a cause of action ■which accrued when the road was in possession of and operated by a former receiver. This is clearly not a Federal question, but a question of general law, viz.: whether one person holding the office of receiver can be held responsible for the acts of his predecessor in the same office. The substance of the second assignment is that the Supreme Court'of Illinois efred in holding that such suit could be…
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