Compton v. Jesup
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This case comes to this court on a certificate from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, propounding questions concerning which instructions . are asked, in accordance with section 6 of the act to establish Circuit Courts of Appeals, approved March 3, 1891. The statement of facts and questions are as follows: This is an appeal from that part' of a decree in a railroad mortgage…
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This case comes to this court on a certificate from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, propounding questions concerning which instructions . are asked, in accordance with section 6 of the act to establish Circuit Courts of Appeals, approved March 3, 1891. The statement of facts and questions are as follows: This is an appeal from that part' of a decree in a railroad mortgage foreclosure suit, rendered by the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio, which fixes the priority…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
When by virtue of the decrees of. foreclosure in the several Circuit Courts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, entered March 23, 1889, the entire line in the_ three States was, on May 15, 1889, sold as a unit to the purchasing committee, and- when that committee organized a new company, called “The Wabash Railroad Company,” to which, on August 1, 1889, was conveyed the entire line so purchased, it would seem that all questions and disputes pending between the several mortgage trustees were settled and arranged upon the terms fixed by that decree. At all events, no appeal appears to have been…
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