North Chicago St. R. v. Chicago Union Traction Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
In Equity. Motion to compel complainants to attach exhibit to bills, and right of answering defendants to plead, answer, or demur by reason of joining of John B. Parsons by amendment.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, District Judge.
These ancillary bills are brought by the North Chicago and West Chicago Companies and their stockholders to enforce causes of action belonging to the receivers of said companies, which the receivers decline to prosecute; they being made defendants. The main purpose of the suits is to redress the alleged fraud of the late Charles T. Yerkes, who, as president and managing director *614of'the North and West Companies, is charged to have built suburban street railways with the funds and upon the credit of said companies, and v^ith taking to himself and certain of his…
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