Philadelphia Trust Co. v. Northumberland County Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 272 and 273, Jan. T., 1916, by Philadelphia Trust Company, trustee, and No. 275, Jan. T., 1916, by Scranton Trust Company, trustee, from decrees of C. P. Northumberland Co., Nos. 394 and 383, in equity, on bills in equity for the foreclosure of corporate mortgages, in cases of The Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company (now Philadelphia Trust Company), Trustee, v. The Northumberland County Traction Company, Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Company,…
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Appeals, Nos. 272 and 273, Jan. T., 1916, by Philadelphia Trust Company, trustee, and No. 275, Jan. T., 1916, by Scranton Trust Company, trustee, from decrees of C. P. Northumberland Co., Nos. 394 and 383, in equity, on bills in equity for the foreclosure of corporate mortgages, in cases of The Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company (now Philadelphia Trust Company), Trustee, v. The Northumberland County Traction Company, Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Company, and H. E. Davis, ÍP. J. Byrod and Charles H. Grant, as receivers of Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Company; and The…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Mesteezat,
These three appeals are from two decrees of the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County, sitting in equity, and as the questions raised in all the appeals are practically identical they may be considered and disposed of in one opinion. The facts will be found in detail in the reporter’s notes. They are principally of record and none of them, essential to the decision, is in dispute. The Sunbury and Susquehanna Railway Company, herein called the “Merged Company,” was formed by an agreement, dated January 16, 1912, merging and consolidating the…
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