Case v. Kelly
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. The case, as stated by the court, was- as follows: The Green Bay and Minnesota Kailroad Company being in the hands of a receiver, namely, Timothy Case, in the Circuit.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. The case, as stated by the court, was- as follows: The Green Bay and Minnesota Kailroad Company being in the hands of a receiver, namely, Timothy Case, in the Circuit. Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, in a suit by the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, to foreclose a mortgage on said railroad, said receiver was directed by the court to take- possession of all the property,real and personal, of said company, namely, its road-bed, lands, right of way and all its other…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The principal question suggested by this appeal is, whether the complainant, as representing the railroad company, can maintain a suit for these lands; that is to say, whether the company was endowed by the legislature of Wisconsin with a capacity to receive an indefinite quantity of lands, with no limitation upon their use, or upon their sale, or whether they were limited to the lands necessary to such, uses as were appropriate to the operations of a railroad.
It is not pretended- that there is any general statute of the State of Wisconsin which authorizes either this company or any other…
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