Central Trust Co. v. Central Trust Co. of Ill.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT.' On June 22, 1906, the Central Trust Company, a corporation engaged in the mining, promoting, real estate and trust business, filed its bill in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois to compel the defendant, Frederick A. Busse, postmaster at Chicago, to deliver to it certain mail-matter which it claims it was entitled to receive and which he wrongfully delivered'to the…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT.' On June 22, 1906, the Central Trust Company, a corporation engaged in the mining, promoting, real estate and trust business, filed its bill in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois to compel the defendant, Frederick A. Busse, postmaster at Chicago, to deliver to it certain mail-matter which it claims it was entitled to receive and which he wrongfully delivered'to the defendant the Central Trust Company of Illinois. Demurrers to the bill were filed, which were sustained, and the bill…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The management of the great post office business of the country is placed in the hands of-the Postmaster General and assistants. Rev-Stat., §§388, 389, 396. In the discharge of his duties as Postmaster General hedías assigned to the First -Assistant Postmaster General “the,preparation of decisions as to delivery of ordinary mail, the ownership of which is in dispute.”. Postal Laws and Regulations, 1902, § 17, par. 9. The question here presented is whether the First Assistant Postmaster General, having directed the postmaster at Chicago to deliver to the “Central Trust Company of Illinois,”…
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