Bruce v. Manchester & Keene Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE . UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF "NEW HAMPSHIRE. This was a motion to dismiss. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. ,
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justice "Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit, at the time of the decree appealed from, was by Alexander Bruce, a citizen of Illinois, and William Shepard, a citizen of Massachusetts,, against the Manchester and Keene Railroad, a New Hampshire corporation, to collect' interest due on certain bonds of the. railroad by the foreclosure of a niortgage made to trustees to secure a series of bonds amounting in the aggregate to §500,000. There were other parties, both plaintiff and defendant, when the suit was begun, but a discontinuance ivas entered before the decree as to…
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