Bronson v. Railroad Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought here by appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wisconsin. It was a b'll in equity brought by Greene C. Bronson and James A. Soutter trustee, &c., against the La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company, and divers other defendants, creditors of that corporation. The Circuit Court made a decree in favor of the plaintiffs for one-Jialfthe amount of their claim, $565,260.05. From this decree the plaintiffs appealed.
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This case was brought here by appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wisconsin. It was a b'll in equity brought by Greene C. Bronson and James A. Soutter trustee, &c., against the La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company, and divers other defendants, creditors of that corporation. The Circuit Court made a decree in favor of the plaintiffs for one-Jialfthe amount of their claim, $565,260.05. From this decree the plaintiffs appealed. After the case came here on appeal, the parties made an agreement that the decree of the Court below should be reversed and a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
F. P. James, Isaac Seymour, and N. A. Cowdrey ask leave to intervene in this cause, and to dismiss the appeal, and predicate their motion on two affidavits of F. P. James.
The first affidavit states substantially that on .the 81st of December, 1856, the La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company executed a mortgage on the western division of their road, lying between Portage and La Crosse, to Greene C. Bronson, James A. Soutter, and Shepard Knapp, as trustees, to secure certain bonds, which mortgage was afterwards foreclosed in the District Court of Wisconsin, and the mortgaged property sold,…
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