Hammock v. Loan & Trust Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. To secure the payment of its bonds, aggregating the sum of $660,000, and issued for the purpose of raising money as •well for its mining and manufacturing business, as for the completion and .maintenance' of its road, the Chester and Tamaroa Coal and Railroad Company, an Illinois corporation, executed, on the twelfth day of April,' 1871, a deed of trust containing such conditions-and…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. To secure the payment of its bonds, aggregating the sum of $660,000, and issued for the purpose of raising money as •well for its mining and manufacturing business, as for the completion and .maintenance' of its road, the Chester and Tamaroa Coal and Railroad Company, an Illinois corporation, executed, on the twelfth day of April,' 1871, a deed of trust containing such conditions-and provisions as are usually inserted in railway. mortgages. It embraced the entire road of the grantor, then made or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
Whether the State court or the ,Citeuit Court of the United States first acquired control and possession of the property conveyed in trust by the. Chester and Tamaroa Coal and Railroad Company, is the first question to which our attention will be directed. If, when seized under the order of the Federal court, it was in the custody of the State court, by its receiver, then, it is claimed, that all the proceedings in the former, so far at least as their regularity and validity depended upon possession of the property, Were in violation of the established principles governing courts of…
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