Ames v. Union Pac. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska
This was a suit by Oliver Ames, 2d, and others, against the Union Pácific Railway Company and other companies, for the appointment of receivers of that company as insolvent. S. H. H. Clark and two others were appointed such receivers, and afterwards two additional receivers were appointéd.
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This was a suit by Oliver Ames, 2d, and others, against the Union Pácific Railway Company and other companies, for the appointment of receivers of that company as insolvent. S. H. H. Clark and two others were appointed such receivers, and afterwards two additional receivers were appointéd. On petition of the receivers, new rules, regulations, and schedules of wages for employes of the company, prepared by the receivers, were approved, and they were authorized to put the same in force, by order of the circuit court sitting in the district of Nebraska; but, the circuit courts sitting in other…
1Opinion of the Court
CALDWELL, Circuit Judge.
On the 18th day of October, 1898, on a bill filed for that purpose, this court took into its possession, control, and management the Union Pacific Railway system, embracing the Union Pacific Railway proper, and some 14 other constituent and allied roads, which together constitute what is known as the “Union Pacific System.” Whether the bill states a case of equitable cognizance, justifying the appointment of receivers, has not been mooted on this hearing, and we therefore express no opinion upon that question. The system of which the court assumed the management and…
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