Farley v. Hill
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. In equity. Decree dismissing the bill, from which, complainant appealed. The evidence was voluminous, but the court seems to have stated in its opinion everything that is necessary to be stated in order to understand it.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. In equity. Decree dismissing the bill, from which, complainant appealed. The evidence was voluminous, but the court seems to have stated in its opinion everything that is necessary to be stated in order to understand it. The case was before this court at October term, 1886, as staled in the opinion, under the title Farley v. Kittson, reported in 120 U. S. at p. 303. Since then Mr. Kittson has died, and the St. Paul Trust Company, the executor of his will, was substituted as defendant in his place. The facts, as…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justioe Shiras
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill sought to enforce an agreement whereby Farley, the plaintiff, and Kittson and Hill were to purchase, for their joint and equal benefit, bonds, secured by mortgages, of two railroad companies, of one of which Farley was receiver by appointment by the court, and of the other of which he was the. general manager, by appointment of the trustees named in the mortgages.
The validity of. such an agreement was denied by the defendants, and they sought to raise that question at the threshold of the case by filing a plea, setting up the…
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