Noyes v. Rich
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Upon pacts agreed. Assumpsit to recover • certain moneys received, by the defendant, as earnings of the York & Cumberland Railroad, while he was superintendent thereof. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn by
Davis, J.
In the suit in equity of Mason & als. v. Y. & C. Railroad Co. & als., ante p. 80, the plaintiff was appointed a receiver, and was ordered to take certain property of the corporation into his possession. The defendant had possession at the time, as superintendent of the railroad; and he also had money in his hands amounting to about seven hundred dollars, which had accrued by operating the road. This he refused to deliver to the receiver; and this suit is brought to recover it..
In a suit in equity, in its nature in rem, when a receiver is…
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