Tysen v. Wabash Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illnois
This was a suit to foreclose mortgages on the defendant railroad. Motion by complainant [David J. Tysen, Jr.] to appoint a receiver pending litigation.
1Opinion of the CourtHarlan, Circuit Justice
(orally). The lines of railway now controlled by the Wabash Railway Company were formerly owned by different corporations, which respectively executed mortgages for large amounts at different times. It may be well to recall the history of those mortgages, and some of the material facts connected with the organization at a subsequent date, of the present company. The different -corporations refer-i red to, executed first mortgages to secure the following amounts of bonds: In 1853, the Toledo and Illinois Railway Company, owning 75V¡¡ miles ot railway in Ohio, executed a first mortgage for…
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