Thomas v. Council Bluffs Canning Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree which dismissed a bill in equity that was brought to compel a debtor to pay some of its creditors the amounts due them under a written contract. In March, 1887, the Council Bluffs Canning Company, a corporation, and one of the appellees, made a written agreement with the Grand Island Canning Company, another' corporation, to the effect that the Grand Island Company would procure from its stockholders and furnish |22,000 for the purpose of purchasing a site for and constructing a factory at Grand Island, in the state of Nebraska, and that…
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