McEwen v. Harriman Land Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
1Opinion of the Court
COCHRAN, District Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree rendered in a case within another case. That case is this: Prior to November 18, 1893, the East Tennessee Land Company, a Tennessee corporation, organized in the year 1889, with its principal place of business at Harriman, in the Eastern District of that state, became insolvent. On that day six of its creditors, noncitizens of Tennessee, filed against it in the lower court a general creditors’ bill. Two days later receivers were appointed to take charge of its assets. March 23, 1894, a bill to foreclose a mortgage upon a large quantity…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Union Trust Co. v. Illinois Midland Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Robb v. VosSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Hayward v. LessonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- East Tennessee Land Co. v. LeesonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Carlisle v. Mercantile Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1901
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- Freeman v. WatsonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1914