Denver & R. G. R. v. Walker
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. This was an intervening petition by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company in a suit in which the respondents, Aldace P. Walker, John J. McCook, and Joseph 0. Wilson, had been appointed receivers of the Colorado Midland Railroad Company. A temporary restraining order was made, on the motion of the intervener, to prevent the receivers from laying a track.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. This was an intervening petition by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company in a suit in which the respondents, Aldace P. Walker, John J. McCook, and Joseph 0. Wilson, had been appointed receivers of the Colorado Midland Railroad Company. A temporary restraining order was made, on the motion of the intervener, to prevent the receivers from laying a track. The district judge of the district of Colorado made an order, in vacation, dissolving the injunction. The intervener appealed. The receivers move to dismiss…
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge.
The motion to dismiss the appeal in this case appears to be well founded. The appeal was taken from an order made at chambers dissolving a temporary restraining order theretofore granted against Aldace P. Walker, John J. McCook, and Joseph C. Wilson, receivers of the Colorado Midland Railroad Company. On an intervening complaint filed by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company in the suit in which the receivers had been appointed, the circuit court for the district of Colorado granted a temporary restraining order to prevent the receivers from laying a track across the…
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