Adelbert College of Western Reserve University v. Toledo, W. & W. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio
In Equity. Suit to assert the lien of certain equipment bonds,, brought by the Adelbert College of Western Reserve University against the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Company, the Wabash Railway Company, the Wahash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company, James R. Jcsup, and Isaac II. Knox, as trustees, George I. Seney, trustee, Solon Humphreys and Daniel A. Lindley, as trustees.
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In Equity. Suit to assert the lien of certain equipment bonds,, brought by the Adelbert College of Western Reserve University against the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Company, the Wabash Railway Company, the Wahash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company, James R. Jcsup, and Isaac II. Knox, as trustees, George I. Seney, trustee, Solon Humphreys and Daniel A. Lindley, as trustees. Various other persons, holding other bonds of the same series, were made parties defendant, and set up their rights by cross-petition. Motion to remand to state court for want of jurisdiction in this court to hear…
1Opinion of the CourtJackson, J.
In April, 1883, the Adelbert College, an Ohio corporation, commenced this suit in the court of common pleas of Lucas county, Ohio, against the above-named defendants, upon two bonds of $500 each, with coupons attached, issued in 1862 by the Toledo & Wabash Railway Company, and styled “Equipment Bonds,” of which there vras a total issue of $600,000. The defendant companies are corporations and citizens of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, which have successively acquired by consolidations and the foreclosure of mortgages the ownership of the properties of the said Toledo & Wahash Railway…
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