National Bank of Augusta v. Carolina, K. & W. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
Action by the National Bank of Augusta, (la., and others, against the Carolina, Knoxville & Western Railroad Company. Joseph B. Humbert intervenes, and asks for the allowance of a claim.
1Opinion of the Court
S1A10NTCXN, Circuit Judge.
This is an intervention of Joseph B. Humbert, Esq., late the president of the defendant company, seeking payment of arrears of salary due to him as president. The petition, confirmed by the testimony, shows long and valuable service by Air. Humbert, prompted chiefly by a desire to promote a public enterprise for the public good. There can be no doubt that good service was rendered, and (hat the amount claimed is justly due; hut as the railroad company went into the hands of the receiver utterly insolvent, possessing no funds whatever, and as the receivin' has barely…
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