Brown v. Pennsylvania Canal Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the 'District. Court of the United States for the Eastern District, of Pennsylvania; Oliver B. Dickinson, Judge. Petition in equity of Alice Frances Brown and others against the Pennsylvania Canal Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Decree dismissing petition, and petitioners appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
In this case a fund came into the registry of the court below under conditions described at full length *418in 235 Fed. 669, 149 C. C. A. 89, and not, therefore, necessary to here restate. In due course there were proceedings to distribute this fund pro rata among the bondholders, with the result that all of them appeared, produced their honds, and received their pro rata share, except the holders of 31 bonds. After diligent, but unsuccessful, effort to find them, there remains in the registry of the court the fund which would have been awarded them, had they appeared.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pennsylvania Canal Co. v. BrownCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1916
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