Mercantile Trust Co. v. Atlantic & P. R.

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

On the 20th day of August, 1884, a contract was made and entered into in writing hy and between the *19Southern Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation organized under and in pursuance of the laws of the state of California, as party of the first part; the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation created and organized under the acts of the congress of the United States, as party of the second part; the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Missouri, as party of the third part; and the Atchison, Topeka &…