Meeker v. Commissioners of the Clinton & Port Hudson Railroad

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

The plaintiff enjoined an execution issued by the commissioners of the Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad Company, on a twelve-months’ bond given to them by her, for the purchase at sheriff’s sale of certain property mortgaged to the Company by her husband, Moses Meeker, and herself, to secure stock and a stock loan of her said husband. The grounds of injunction are that the petitioner, though not a party to the loan, was a party to the mortgage ; that having an interest in discharging the claim, she is entitled by law to the privilege of…