Thomson v. McMorran Milling Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to St. Clair; Thomas, J. Ejectment by JohnW. Thomson, Jr., and Kate V. Calder against the McMorran Milling Company, the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Company, and the Elint & Per© Marquette Railroad Company. Plaintiffs had judgment against defendant Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company, and filed a suggestion of claim for mesne profits.
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Certiorari to St. Clair; Thomas, J. Ejectment by JohnW. Thomson, Jr., and Kate V. Calder against the McMorran Milling Company, the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Company, and the Elint & Per© Marquette Railroad Company. Plaintiffs had judgment against defendant Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company, and filed a suggestion of claim for mesne profits. From an order granting a motion to quash the service and strike from the files the suggestion of claim, plaintiffs bring certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, C. J.
On January 27, 1899, the plaintiffs obtained a judgment in ejectment against the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company, a corporation, impleaded with two other corporations, who recovered against the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs took a writ of error, and the case is now pending in this court. On January 1, 1900, the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company transferred all of its franchises and railroad property to the Pere Marquette Railroad Company, a new corporation organized to purchase this and other railroad property. On January *5938, 1900, the plaintiffs filed a suggestion of damages, and…
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