Hubinger v. Central Trust Co. of New York
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to tlie Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Southern District of Iowa. This is a suit wherein the Central Trust Company of New York, the defendant in error, hereafter termed the “Trust Company,” sued John C. Hubinger, the plaintiff in error, in an action which is essentially an action at law to recover damages for the wrongful disposition and destruction of property which at one time constituted an electric street-railway plant in the city of Keokuk, Iowa,…
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In Error to tlie Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Southern District of Iowa. This is a suit wherein the Central Trust Company of New York, the defendant in error, hereafter termed the “Trust Company,” sued John C. Hubinger, the plaintiff in error, in an action which is essentially an action at law to recover damages for the wrongful disposition and destruction of property which at one time constituted an electric street-railway plant in the city of Keokuk, Iowa, the same being the property of the Gate City Electric Street-Railway Company. A jury was waived, and the case was tried by…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
The case having been tried before the circuit court without the intervention of a jury, and the facts having been found specially, the only question open for consideration in this court is whether the. facts as found by the trial judge are adequate to sustain the judgment. The findings of the trial judge, as a matter of course, cannot be reviewed. The judgment is challenged by counsel for the plaintiff in error, as we understand, on two principal grounds: *790First, because tbe Trust Company, as it is said, bad no sucb title to the mortgaged property which was bought by the defendant Hubinger at…
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