Sioux City Terminal Railroad & Warehouse Co. v. Trust Co. of North America
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts which are revelant to the controversy arising on this record are as follows: The Sioux City Terminal Railroad'and Warehouse Company (hereafter "designated as the Terminal Company) was, in 1889, incorporated under the general laws of the State of • Iowa with an authorized capital of one million of dollars.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts which are revelant to the controversy arising on this record are as follows: The Sioux City Terminal Railroad'and Warehouse Company (hereafter "designated as the Terminal Company) was, in 1889, incorporated under the general laws of the State of • Iowa with an authorized capital of one million of dollars. In January, 1890, the corporation, by authority of its board of directors, authorized by its stockholders, mortgaged in favor of the Trust Company of North America its “grounds, franchises, liens, rights,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The errors assigned and the discussion at the b¿ar confine the question to be decided solely to the validity of the negotiable bonds of the Terminal Company which were issued to the Trust Company of North America, and which were sold in open market to innocent purchasers for value and the proceeds of which inured to the benefit of the Terminal Company. The issue for decision is restricted to this question, since all the errors assigned and the contentions based upon them depend on the assertion that the bonds issued to the Trust Company of North America, and the mortgage by which their…
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