City of Wichita v. Old Colony Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
AMIDON, District Judge.
The Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company is now, and has been for nearly 20 years, the owner of a telephone system in the city of Wichita, which not only serves the purpose of a local exchange, but is at the same time part of an extensive system of long distance telephones reaching from St. Louis, Mo., to the western part of the state of Kansas. The compláinants below (appellees here), the Old Colony Trust Company and Charles J. Hubbard, are trustees under a mortgage executed by the telephone company upon all its property to secure the payment of $1,250,000 of its bonds.…
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