Legal Opinion

Felton v. Ackerman

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided April 3, 1894No. 139PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United tita tea for the Houthern Division of tiie Eastern District of Tennessee. This- was an intervening petition by Leo Ackerman against Samuel M. Felton, receiver of the Cincinnati, blew Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company, seeking to enjoin him from continuing to obstruct a crossing.

1Opinion of the Court

TAFT, Circuit Judge.

Leo Ackerman, the appellee, filed an intervening petition, in a case now pending in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Tennessee, wherein Samuel Felton, the appellant, had been appointed receiver of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway, the lessee of tiie railroad known as the Cincinnati Southern Railway, built and owned by the city of Cincinnati, connecting Cincinnati and Chattanooga.

The petition averred ihafc the petitioner was a butcher in Chattanooga, and owned and used in his business 17 acres of land, with a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Baxter v. Winooski Turnpike Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1849

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Gillis v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  2. Hill v. M. S. Alper & Son, Inc.Supreme Court of Rhode Island · 1969
  3. Railroad Commission v. Alabama Great Southern R. R.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1913
  4. Rector v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1927
  5. State of Tennessee v. QuintardCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1897

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