American Waterworks Co. of Illinois v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. The suit out of which these appeals arise was brought by the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, the appellee, to foreclose an original and a supplemental mortgage on a certain waterworks plant situated in the city of Omaha, Neb., which were given to secure the payment of an issue of negotiable bonds t.o the amount of |4,000,000, that were executed by the American Waterworks Company, a corporation of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. The suit out of which these appeals arise was brought by the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, the appellee, to foreclose an original and a supplemental mortgage on a certain waterworks plant situated in the city of Omaha, Neb., which were given to secure the payment of an issue of negotiable bonds t.o the amount of |4,000,000, that were executed by the American Waterworks Company, a corporation of the state of Illinois. The action was brought originally against the appellant llie American Waterworks Company of…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
The important questions which arise on these appeals will be best explained and understood by a succinct statement of the facts and circumstances that gave rise to the litigation. Tn the year 1880 the *958city of Omaha, being a city of the first class, was authorized by a general law of the state of Nebraska regulating the organization and defining the powers of cities of the first class, “to erect, construct, and maintain waterworks either within or without the corporate limits of the city, and to make all needful rules and regulations concerning the use of water supplied by such waterworks, and…
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