Wylie v. Missouri Pac. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
At Law. Action on bonds. This was an action brought by Wylie against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, to recover money due on certain bonds stolen from plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtWallace, J.
In January, 1876, certain negotiable bonds, for $1,000 each, made by the Pacific Railroad Company of Missouri, and part of an issue of 7,000 bonds of like tenor, then owned by the plaintiff, were stolen from a vault of the Northampton National Bank, where she had left them for safe-keeping. The bonds, like all those of the issue, were numbered. The defendant has succeeded to the liability of the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, and stands in the position of the original obligor for the payment of the bonds. The plaintiff, having tendered a sufficient bond of indemnity to the defendant, brings…
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