Barnes v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. In -equity. Decree dismissing the bill. Complainant appealed. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This is a suit by William Barnes to foreclose a mortgage\ made to him, as trustee, by the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company, hereinafter, designated as the La Crosse Company. The record shows that this company was incorporated by the legislature of Wisconsin on the 11th of April, 1852, to build and operate a railroad in that State between La Crosse, on the Mississippi River, and Milwaukee, on Lake Michigan, a distance of about two hundred miles. The road was originally regarded by the company and treated as consisting of two divisions — one, called the Eastern Division, extending from…
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