In re Baxter
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Petition for Revision of Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio; Howard C. Hollister and John W. Peck,'Judges. In the matter of the Orinoco Corporation, bankrupt. Petition by George N. Baxter to revise orders of the District Court.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
The situation out of which the present controversy arises is this:
In the year 1883 the government of Venezuela gave to one Fitzgerald a 99-year lease of a large tract of land for mining and other purposes. This concession was afterwards assigned by Fitzgerald to the Manoa *345Company, Limited, by the latter to the Orinoco Company, by that company to the Orinoco Company, Limited, and by the last-named company to the Orinoco Corporation. After operations had been conducted to some extent under the concession, the government of Venezuela caused it to be annulled, and the…
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