New England Water Works Co. v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. . The bill on which the decree appealed from was based, filed originally in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Illinois, is by the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, trustee, a corporation of New York, against the New England Water Works Company, a corporation of Rhode Island, the Alton Water Works Company, a corporation of Illinois, the American Loan and Trust Company, a corporation of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. . The bill on which the decree appealed from was based, filed originally in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Illinois, is by the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, trustee, a corporation of New York, against the New England Water Works Company, a corporation of Rhode Island, the Alton Water Works Company, a corporation of Illinois, the American Loan and Trust Company, a corporation of Massachusetts, the United Water Works Company, a corporation of New York, the Boston Water and Light Company, a…
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above) delivered the opinion:
The case turns chiefly, on two questions: Piad the Circuit Court jurisdiction of the cause; and, jurisdiction being assumed, did the court rightly decree that within the meaning of the mortgage to Caldwell, *525and the mortgage to the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, the new pumping station, with its connecting mains, were after acquired property covered by the mortgages.
We are of the opinion that the court had jurisdiction. The whole case created by the bill of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, it is true, was the foreclosure of its…
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