Bankers' Trust Co. v. Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; William C. Hook, Judge. Consolidated suits between the Bankers’ Trust Company and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company and others. From an order extending receivership, etc., the Bankers’ Trust Company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, a corporation of Kansas, is the owner of an extensive system of railroads stretching southwesterly from St. Louis, lying in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. There is a blanket mortgage upon the railroads constituting this system, and there are many divisional mortgages, which rest upon respective parts of the system. Under a creditors’ bill against the railway company the court below on September 27, 1915, appointed Charles E. Schafif receiver óf all its railroads and property, to take and hold possession of them and to apply…
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