Rust v. United Waterworks Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. On September 18, 1894, in an action in the court below in which the United Waterworks Company, a corporation of the state of New York, was plaintiff, and the American Waterworks Company, a corporation of the state of New Jersey, was defendant, a judgment for the sum of $1.18,512.50 was rendered in favor of the former, and against the latter.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. On September 18, 1894, in an action in the court below in which the United Waterworks Company, a corporation of the state of New York, was plaintiff, and the American Waterworks Company, a corporation of the state of New Jersey, was defendant, a judgment for the sum of $1.18,512.50 was rendered in favor of the former, and against the latter. On September 20, 1894, É. HydejRust, the receiver of the-defendant corporation, the plaintiff in error, filed in that court a petition that the execution upon that judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). Before considering the merits of this case, it is necessary 1o dispose of a preliminary question. The defendant in error challenges th-e jurisdiction of this court to hear and de termine the questions presented’ by the assignments of error. It moves to dismiss the writ of error on four grounds.
*1321. Because the jurisdiction of the court below to render the judgment against the American Waterworks Company, which the plaintiff in error, the receiver of that company, sought by his petition to vacate and to defend against, was in issue at the hearing below, which resulted…
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