Kneeland v. Luce
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. The court stated the case as follows: The Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad Company (hereinafter called the St. Louis Company)' was organized about June, 1881, and was formed by the consolidation of ten local railroad companies which were engaged in building lines of narrow-gauge railroad in Indiana and Illinois, between Kokomo, Indiana and East St. Louis.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. The court stated the case as follows: The Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad Company (hereinafter called the St. Louis Company)' was organized about June, 1881, and was formed by the consolidation of ten local railroad companies which were engaged in building lines of narrow-gauge railroad in Indiana and Illinois, between Kokomo, Indiana and East St. Louis. A construction company, known as the Western Construction Company (hereinafter called the Construction Company), before that, and in 1880, had entered…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatoheord
Excluding the cases which are not within the jurisdiction of this court because the amounts do not exceed $5000, we proceed to examine the merits as to the certificates.
On the part .of the appellant, the case has been argued principally on the contentioh that the sub-contractors had no lien superior to the first mortgage bonds; that the .railroad company owed no debt to any sub-contractor; and that the receiver’s certificates were issued without consideration, and were invalid as against the first mortgage bondholders. It is urged, that the testimony shows that the certificates were issued…
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