International Trust Co. v. T. B. Townsend Brick & Contracting Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeals from tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the (Northern District of Ohio. This is an appeal from a decree awarding priority over several pre-existing railroad mortgages to a debt due from the mortgagor company to the appellee for the construction of the pier and abutments of a railroad bridge over the Cuyahoga river in the city of Cleveland, Ohio.
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Appeals from tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the (Northern District of Ohio. This is an appeal from a decree awarding priority over several pre-existing railroad mortgages to a debt due from the mortgagor company to the appellee for the construction of the pier and abutments of a railroad bridge over the Cuyahoga river in the city of Cleveland, Ohio. This claim was asserted by an intervening petition filed by the appellee in the case of Cleveland, C. & S. Ry. Co. v. Knickerbocker Trust Co., 86 Fed. 73, a cause pending in the circuit court, under which a…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
The appellant has in this court for the first time, so far as the record shows, challenged the jurisdiction of the circuit court to proceed at all under the administrative bill filed by -the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad Company. First, it is said that federal jurisdiction did not exist. This is a question which can be raised at any time. But federál jurisdiction did exist. The complainant was a corporation of Ohio. The named defendants were all citizens of New York or Massachusetts. This made a case of jurisdiction upon the ground of diversity of citizenship. Federal jurisdiction…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Fosdick v. SchallSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Kneeland v. American Loan & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Union Trust Co. v. Illinois Midland Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Thomas v. Western Car Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Miltenberger v. Logansport Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1882
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
- New York Trust Co. v. Detroit, T. & I. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1918
- Crane Co. v. Fidelity Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1916
- Fordyce v. Omaha, Kansas City & E. R. R.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri · 1906
- Gregg v. Mercantile Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1901
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