Mellen v. Moline Malleable Iron Works
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED - STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This was an appeal from a final decree sustaining a plea in bar to a suit brought by the appellants, and dismissing their bill of complaint for want of equitjk On the 23d of June, 1883, the Moline Malleable Iron Works, an Illinois corporation doing business at Moline, in that State, executed a deed, which was duly acknowledged and recorded, conveying to Charles F. Hemenway several…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED - STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This was an appeal from a final decree sustaining a plea in bar to a suit brought by the appellants, and dismissing their bill of complaint for want of equitjk On the 23d of June, 1883, the Moline Malleable Iron Works, an Illinois corporation doing business at Moline, in that State, executed a deed, which was duly acknowledged and recorded, conveying to Charles F. Hemenway several lots or parcels of land in that city. The deed recited that S. W. Wheelock and A. L. Carson had been induced by the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
Was the decree in the suit instituted by. the National Furnace Company (to be hereafter called the Furnace Company) against the Moline Malleable Iron Works (to be hereafter called the Iron Works) and others, declaring that Hill was not entitled to a lien or security by reason of the trust deed and chattel mortgage of June 23, 1883, void for want of jurisdiction in the court that rendered it % This is the principal question in the present case. Its solution depends upon the construction of the eighth section of the act of March 3, 1875, determining the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the…
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