Flint & Pere Marquette Railway Co. v. Dewey

Christiancy J.

The bill was filed to procure the surrender and delivery by the defendant to complainant of eleven bonds of one thousand dollars each, executed by coinplainant, with coupons attached, which bonds are a part of a much larger sum executed and intended to be used in the construction and equipment of complainant’s road.

The bonds were secured by a deed of trust executed by the company to Myron H. Clark, Shepherd Knapp and James M. Edmunds. They were countersigned by the trustees, signed by the defendant (then and for some time after President of the company), and attested by Edmund…