Central Improvement Co. v. Cambria Steel Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri; John F. Philips, Judge. Suits in equity by the Cambria Steel Company against the Central Improvement Company and others, and by the Provident Rife & Trust Company against the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad Company and others. From the decrees, the Central Improvement Company and the Guardian Trust Company appeal.
1Per curiam
The paramount issue in these cases is: Did the Southern Company become liable to pay the unsecured debt of the-Belt Company to the Trust Company by participating in the execution of a scheme whereby 'it acquired the title- to the property of the Belt Company, deprived its creditor, the Trust Company, of recourse thereto by execution, to collect its claim and yet reserved to itself and other' stockholders of the Belt Company an equity in its property and a benefit therefrom more valuable than the amount of the Trust Company’s *699claim? After exhaustive arguments and briefs and a review of the…
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