Dickerman v. Northern Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern District of Illinois. This is a suit brought by the Northern Trust Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Illinois, and doing business at Chicago, and Ovid B. Jameson, a citizen of the state of Indiana, as trustees, against the Columbia Straw-Paper Company, a corporation organized under the laws of New Jersey, to foreclose a trust deed covering various paper-mill properties given by the Columbia…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern District of Illinois. This is a suit brought by the Northern Trust Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Illinois, and doing business at Chicago, and Ovid B. Jameson, a citizen of the state of Indiana, as trustees, against the Columbia Straw-Paper Company, a corporation organized under the laws of New Jersey, to foreclose a trust deed covering various paper-mill properties given by the Columbia Straw-Paper Company to the appellees, to secure the payment of 1,000 first mortgage gold-bearing bonds of the company…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Upon a careful perusal of the record and testimony, we find no error in the conclusions of law or fact, and think that the decree of the circuit court should be affirmed. The defendants seem to have failed wholly in making good the allegations contained in the answer. The *453principal questions discussed, and on which the case .turned in the court below, seemed to be: Whether there was any fraud or collusion practiced in the organization of the company and the issuing of the stock; whether stock was issued without consideration, and has not been paid for;…
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