Clinton Coal Co. v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Indiana Supreme Court
From Vigo Superior Court; William T. Gleason, Judge. Action by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, by its receiver, against the Clinton Coal Company and others. From the judgment rendered, the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtEwbank, J.
— This was a proceeding in the name and on behalf of the appellee railroad company, by a receiver appointed by the United States District Court, brought under authority of an order of that court, to appropriate for railroad purposes certain lands in Vermillion county, Indiana, to which the appellant coal company had title, but in which its coappellant had an interest by virtue of a contract. An instrument of appropriation for that purpose was filed in the Vermillion Circuit Court on November 9, 1917.
After three continuances, on the second day before the case had been finally set for hearing,…
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