Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co. v. Texas Central Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana, filed its’bill on April 2,1885, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas, against the Texas Central Railway Company, averring that the latter company was originally organized and incorporated under the general laws of Texas, on…
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana, filed its’bill on April 2,1885, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas, against the Texas Central Railway Company, averring that the latter company was originally organized and incorporated under the general laws of Texas, on May 31, 1879, to build and operate a railroad from Ross Station, in McLennan County, to the centre of Eastland County:…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The objection that the Farmers’ Company could not proceed to a foreclosure and sale to pay the principal as well as the interest of the bonds upon a default in the payment of interest, without averring and proving that the bill had been filed for that purpose by the request of the holders of seventy-five per cent in amount of the outstanding bonds, rests upon the language of the conditions of the mortgages. Each of them, after providing that it should be void in the event that the railway company should pay the principal of the bonds and the several instalments of interest as they became due,…
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