Parsons v. Robinson
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Motion to dismiss. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This is a motion to dismiss an appeal, because the decree appealed from is not a final decree, and also because the value of the matter in dispute does not exceed five thousand dollars.
The suit was originally brought by William M. Robinson, the holder of general mortgage bonds, so called, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, to the amount of $5000, to foreclose'the mortgage.given for their security. Afterwards Edwin Parsons, the-present appellant and the-holder of $100,000 of the same issue of bonds, intervened by leave of the court, and became a party complainant in the suit.
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