Levy v. Equitable Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado; Walter H. Sanborn and Robert E. Lewis, Judges. Suit by the Equitable Trust Company of New York, as substituted plaintiff, against the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, in which a receiver was appointed for the defendant company.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado; Walter H. Sanborn and Robert E. Lewis, Judges. Suit by the Equitable Trust Company of New York, as substituted plaintiff, against the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, in which a receiver was appointed for the defendant company. Petition by Jefferson M. Revy and others, stockholders of the defendant company, for leave to intervene and have the receiver’s sale postponed until the stockholders could present a defense to the judgment on which the order for sale was based was denied (269 Fed, 987), and…
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by some individual stockholders of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company and a protective committee of like stockholders from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado denying them leave to intervene in the suit of the Equitable Trust Company of New York pending in that court. A decree had been entered in the suit for the sale of the equity of the Denver Company in its railroad properties and the sale was about to be made. The decree was based on a money judgment in the court below for $36,515,038.68, obtained January 7,…
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- United States v. Union Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Leavenworth County Commissioners v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Equitable Trust Co. of New York v. Denver & R. G. R.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918
- Equitable Trust Co. v. Western Pac. Ry. Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1917
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