Slocum v. City of North Platte
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. Suit by Frank L. Slocum, as receiver of the North Platte Waterworks Company, against; the City of North Platte. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
REED, District Judge.
The appellant, Frank E. Slocum, a citizen of Pennsylvania, and the duly appointed receiver of the North Platte Waterworks Company, a corporation, brought this suit in the Circuit Court against the city of North Platte, a municipal corporation of Nebraska, to enforce specific performance of an alleged contract by the city to purchase the waterworks system of said company, which had been installed, and was being operated by it in that city. Upon final hearing the Circuit Court dismissed the bill and complainant prosecutes this appeal.
The record shows that on July 14, 1887,…
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