Rolston. v. Missouri Fund Commissioners
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ¡UNITED STATES FOR . THE. WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This was a bill in equity to restrain the fund commissioners of the State of Missouri from selling the .Hannibal and St. ■ Joseph Kailroad. Both parties appealed. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This was a suit in equity brought by Bosewell G. Bolston, Hernán Do.wd, and Oren Boot, Jr., trustees in a mortgage made by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Bailroad Company, a Missouri corporation, to restrain the executive' officers of Missouri from selling the mortgaged property under prior statutory mortgages in favor of the state, on the ground that the liability for which the earlier liens were created had been satisfied, and that they* as' trustees, were entitled-to an assignment of those liens. The material facts are these:
The Hannibal and St.- Joseph Bailroad Company was incorporated by…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Ex Parte Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Ralston v. CrittendenU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri · 1882
- State ex rel. Rolston v. ChappellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1881
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