Farmers' Loan Co. v. Or. Pac. R. R.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Benton: J. C. Fullerton, Judge. This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Benton County denying the petition of certain employees of the receivers of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company for an order requiring the plaintiff in the foreclosure suit in which such receivers were appointed to pay the wages of the petitioners.
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From Benton: J. C. Fullerton, Judge. This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Benton County denying the petition of certain employees of the receivers of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company for an order requiring the plaintiff in the foreclosure suit in which such receivers were appointed to pay the wages of the petitioners. On October 28, 1890, the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, as trustees for the bondholders of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company and the Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad Company, commenced a suit in the Circuit Court of Benton County to foreclose a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
This is, so far as we can ascertain, the first recorded Instance in the judicial history of railroad receiver-ships in which the trust fund was insufficient to pay -the employees of the receiver engaged in the operation of the road; and hence we are unaided in the determination of the question before us by any judicial decision directly in point. The contention of the petitioners seems to be that a receiver of a railroad appointed in a suit to foreclose a mortgage on the road, and clothed with authority to operate it, is as much -the representative of the plaintiff as a sheriff who levies…
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