Girard Insurance & Trust Co v. Cooper
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FBOM THE CIRCÜIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH circuit. This was a petition by the firm of ~W. H. Cooper & Son, originally filed in the United States court for the Indian Territory, against Edwin D. Chadick and Francis I. Gowen, receivers of' the Choctaw Coal and- Railway Company, a corporation created under the laws of the State of Minnesota, with a right, among other things, to build and operate railways and to own and develop coal mines; and which had been…
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APPEAL FBOM THE CIRCÜIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH circuit. This was a petition by the firm of ~W. H. Cooper & Son, originally filed in the United States court for the Indian Territory, against Edwin D. Chadick and Francis I. Gowen, receivers of' the Choctaw Coal and- Railway Company, a corporation created under the laws of the State of Minnesota, with a right, among other things, to build and operate railways and to own and develop coal mines; and which had been authorized by acts of Congress approved February 18,1888, and February 13, 1889, to-construct a railway within'the. Indian…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beown
There can be no doubt of the correctness of the master’s finding with regard to the work done by Cooper & Son prior to June 3, 1891. This work was done under a contract made May 23, 1890, between Cooper & Son and Chadick, who was at the time general manager of the Choctaw Coal and Bail-way Company, and who, by authority of the board of directors, had arranged, with the Judiciary Committees of Congress for the location of the United States court at South McAles-ter, upon condition -that the company would provide the officers of the court, free of all cost, with suitable quarters. While the…
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