Central Trust Co. v. Louisville, St. L. & T. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky
Suits by the Central Trust Company against the Louisville, St. Louis & Texas Railway Company for foreclosure of mortgages. Heard on demurrer to intervening petition of Mchols, Watkins & Co., and others.
1Opinion of the Court
BARR, District Judge.
This intervening petition claims that the railway company on the 23d of July, 1892, made a contract with H. M. McCracken, who agreed to procure the necessary right of way for an extension of its line from its terminus at West Point, at a place called Howard, across to a junction with the Louisville & Hashville Railroad,' and also agreed to erect a bridge across Salt river. McCracken was to construct and complete said extension to the Hashville Railroad, and get therefor, from the railroad com-' pany, $25;000 of its first mortgage 6 per cent, bonds, and $25,000 of its…
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