Midland Railway Co. v. St. Clair

The appellee sued the appellants, the Midland Railway Company and the Chicago & Southeastern Railway Company, and numerous others, setting up a purchase of and deed for that part of the Midland railway and road-bed within Hamilton county, in this State, at a sale for delinquent and current taxes; that the defendants, other than said Midland Railway Company, held a mortgage and judgment liens against said property, all of which were, it was alleged, junior to the claim of the appellee for such taxes. As to the Chicago & Southeastern Railway company, it was alleged that it had become a…