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Mowry v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided October 5, 1896No. 313PublishedCited by 10 opinions

On Appeal from the Circuit Court of tlie United Stales for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. On the 1st day of September, 1881, the Oreen Bay, Winona & St. Paul Railroad Company executed to the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company a mortgage or trust deed to secure the payment of bonds amounting to $1,600,000. This mortgage covered the main line of railroad in Wisconsin, extending from Green Bay to the western terminus at Bastmoor, on the east bank of the Mississippi river, and a…

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On Appeal from the Circuit Court of tlie United Stales for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. On the 1st day of September, 1881, the Oreen Bay, Winona & St. Paul Railroad Company executed to the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company a mortgage or trust deed to secure the payment of bonds amounting to $1,600,000. This mortgage covered the main line of railroad in Wisconsin, extending from Green Bay to the western terminus at Bastmoor, on the east bank of the Mississippi river, and a branch road extending from Onalaska to La Crosse, together with certain real estate in the last-named city. The bonds…

1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, Circuit Judge

Since this cause came to this court, provision was made by order of this court which would permit the complainant in the original decree to proceed to a sale of the railway thereunder, and providing that an amount should be paid into the court on the sale, which would fully protect the appellant here in case Ms claim should be sustained. We need not, therefore, stop to consider the various assignments of error which deal with certain alleged irregularities in the entry of the decree and its subsequent modification, The only matter with which we need concern ourselves is the contention of the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Union Trust Co. v. Illinois Midland Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
  2. Ketchum v. DuncanSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  3. Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Shenandoah Valley RailroadSupreme Court of Virginia · 1889
  4. American Paper-Bag Co. v. Van NortwickCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1892
  5. Pfister v. Milwaukee Electric Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1892

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Carlisle v. Mercantile Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1901
  2. Kemmerer v. St. Louis Blast Furnace Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1914
  3. Mudge v. Black, Sheridan & WilsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1915
  4. New York Security & Trust Co. v. Louisville, E. & St. L. Consol. R.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana · 1900
  5. In Re Merced Irr. Dist.District Court, S.D. California · 1939

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