Wood v. City of Mobile

PARDEE, Circuit Judge.

The hill in this case has for its object, as stated in the appellant’s brief, ••the appointment of a receiver to take charge of the old city waterworks, generally known as the ‘Slein Waterworks,’ and to operate the same in supplying water to Mobile and its inhabitants, and to preserve the same and to collect the income therefrom under the direction of the court, until the determination of a suit in ejectment at common law brought by Wood against the city of Mobile, then ponding in the United States circuit court for the Southern district of Alabama. The bill further…