First Trust Co. v. Crooked Creek R. & Coal Co.
District Court, N.D. Iowa
In Equity. Bill by the First Trust Company, as trustee, against the Crooked Creek Railroad & Coal Company, in which the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and the Northern Pacific Railway Company separately intervened. Submitted on separate petitions of intervention of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company, and the Northern Pacific Railway Company, interveners.
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In Equity. Bill by the First Trust Company, as trustee, against the Crooked Creek Railroad & Coal Company, in which the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and the Northern Pacific Railway Company separately intervened. Submitted on separate petitions of intervention of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company, and the Northern Pacific Railway Company, interveners. The main suit is by the First Trust Company, a Wisconsin corporation, as trustee in an indenture of trust and first mortgage against the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). A large amount of testimony has been taken upon these respective claims, and it is stipulated by the parties that such testimony shall be used in the determination of each of said intervening claims. The controlling facts disclosed by the testimony are practically without dispute, some of them being matters of record.
The defendant Crooked Creek Railroad & Coal Company, which will be called the defendant, was incorporated under the law of Iowa, its first charter expiring November 8, 1895, when it was renewed for a period of 20 years, which expired November…
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- Luedecke v. Des Moines Cabinet Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1908
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Third National Bank of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
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