Wade v. Chicago, Springfield & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS-PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POB THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT .OP ILLINOIS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
The appellants, Belle N. B. Wade and Warner M. Hopkins, testamentary trustees of the estate of Robert B. Wade, as holders of fifty first-mortgage bonds of the Chicago, Springfield and St. Louis Railroad Company, on January 27, 1887, filed their bill in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois, for the purpose of enforcing a mortgage lien upon the property and railway of said company, extending from Springfield, Illinois, to East St. Louis, Illinois. The material facts of the case, as set out in the bill and as disclosed by the record, are as follows:
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