Merriman v. Chicago & E. I. R.

BAKER, District Judge.

Counsel in their brief in support of the petition for rehearing say:

“In the opening statement of the court it is said that the appellants concede that ‘unless the original bill was a creditors’ bill, which created a lien on $500,000 of bonds of the Eastern Illinois Company, which it was about to issue to certain officers of the Danville Company, and which it did issue before the filing of the amended and supplemental bill,’ the cause was properly dismissed as to the Eastern Illinois Company. This statement is, we think, somewhat broader than that made in our argument,…