Legal Opinion
Jordan v. Newton
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided May 6, 1898PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Appeal from Berrien; Coolidge, J. Bill by Francis Jordan, trustee, against John C. Newton and others, as assignees of certain railroad-aid notes executed by Abel W. Wells and others, impleaded in the suit, to determine as to the ownership of the notes. Complainant died pending decree, and Orville O. Jordan, his executor, was substituted as complainant in his stead. From a decree declaring the notes invalid, defendant assignees appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The circuit judge filed a written opinion in this case, which so clearly states the questions involved that I quote as much from it as is necessary to an understanding of the case:
“The bill of complaint was filed by Francis Jordan in his lifetime as a bill of interpleader, setting forth that on September 8, 1888, there was deposited with him, as a trustee and in escrow, a package of 84 notes executed by different parties, and made payable to the treasurer of the Indiana & Lake Michigan Railway; that said notes were identical with each other in the time and *675conditions expressed, except the…
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