Thomas v. Western Car Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL EEOM THE CIRCUIT COUET. OF THE UNITED STATES EOE THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This is an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of ’ the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, in a proceeding, to foreclose a mortgage executed by the Peoria and Rock Island Railway Company to secure its first mortgage bonds to the amount of $1,500,000. ) The original bill was filed in October, 1874, by Yeeder G-. Thomas, Daniel R. Thomas and Thomas B. Simpson,…
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APPEAL EEOM THE CIRCUIT COUET. OF THE UNITED STATES EOE THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. This is an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of ’ the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, in a proceeding, to foreclose a mortgage executed by the Peoria and Rock Island Railway Company to secure its first mortgage bonds to the amount of $1,500,000. ) The original bill was filed in October, 1874, by Yeeder G-. Thomas, Daniel R. Thomas and Thomas B. Simpson, citizens of the State of New Jersey, as holders of certain mortgage bonds, and on behalf of all of the holders of such…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shibas
The questions presented by this record for our determination arise out of objections by the appellants to allowances .made by the court below in favor of the Western Car Company, the appellee, and which company was permitted to intervene in the foreclosure proceedings brought by the. appellants against the Peoria' and Rock Island Railway Company. ¡
The first contested question is as to the propriety of the allowance of the sum of $8162.99 for the use of cars of the Western Car Company for a period of six months prior to the receivership.
It cannot be said that in no case can indebtedness for…
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