Hervey v. Illinois Midland Railway Co.

Drummond, O. J.

The original bill was filed in the Edgar county circuit court on the eleventh day of September, 1875. The parties were a stockholder and judgment creditors of the *708various corporations from which the Midland Bailway Company was formed. At the time the bill was filed a receiver was appointed, clothed with the usual powers conferred upon such an officer. Afterwards, the bill was amended by making other persons parties plaintiff as judgment and general creditors of the companies out of which the Midland Bailway was formed, those companies being the Paris & Decatur Bail-road…