Burnham v. Bowen
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF IOWA. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
delivered the opinioh-of the court.
The facts presented by this appeal are as follows:
Oh the 1st of June, 1871, the Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad Company executed a trust deed, in the nature of a mortgage, conveying all its railroad property and “ all the revenues and income” thereof to John A. Burnham, Stephen Y. R. Thayer, and James H. Blake, trustees, to secure an issue of bonds amounting in the aggregate to $4,125,000. No interest was paid on these bonds, hut the company remained in peaceable possession and i operated its road, until the early part of the year 1875, when the…
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