Sheffield & Birmingham Coal, Iron & Railway Co. v. Gordon
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. This was an intervening petition filed by the firm of Gordon, Strobel & Laureau, in a ease pending in the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Alabama, for the foreclosure of a deed of trust, setting up and claiming a mechanic’s lien on certain furnace property described in the petition, to secure the payment of a large balance due to them as builders.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. This was an intervening petition filed by the firm of Gordon, Strobel & Laureau, in a ease pending in the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Alabama, for the foreclosure of a deed of trust, setting up and claiming a mechanic’s lien on certain furnace property described in the petition, to secure the payment of a large balance due to them as builders. The Central Trust Company of New York, trustee under the deed of trust, and plaintiff in the foreclosure suit; the Sheffield and Birmingham Coal,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brown,
after stating the case, delivered the . opinion of the court.
An interlocutory decree was entered in this case by consent, and the questions in issue arise upon exceptions to the report of the special master, to whom the case was referred to take proofs, and to report the amount found by him to be due. He was not, however, required to report the- testimony. Defendants excepted to so much of said report and the findings of the master in reference thereto as determined —
“1. That the defences set up by the defendants are not sustained by the evidence;
“ 2. That the petitioners,…
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