Metropolitan Bank v. St. Louis Dispatch Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR. THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The Metropolitan’National Bank of New York filed its bill of complaint against the St. Louis Dispatch Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri; the Dispatch Publishing Company, a corporation likewise organized under the laws of that State, and H. L. Sutton, trustee, a citizen of Missouri, July 1, 1887, and an amended bill, April 21, 1888, which averred: “…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR. THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The Metropolitan’National Bank of New York filed its bill of complaint against the St. Louis Dispatch Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri; the Dispatch Publishing Company, a corporation likewise organized under the laws of that State, and H. L. Sutton, trustee, a citizen of Missouri, July 1, 1887, and an amended bill, April 21, 1888, which averred: “ That on or about the first day of June, A.D. 1877, the said ‘ The St. Louis Dispatch Company’ owned a certain daily…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
In the language of counsel for appellant "this bill “ was filed for the foreclosure of a mortgage upon a certain newspaper, a newspaper plant, and a membership in the Western Associated Press.” The contention is that the newspaper, plant, and membership were subject to the lien of the Sutton mortgage as one homogeneous property,' and that any property of like kind substituted for' any portion lost or destroyed became subject to this lien; that the identity of the newspaper, the membership, and the plant, remained up to July 1,1887, when the bill was filed, and that the defendant was estopped…
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- Godden v. KimmellSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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