First Nat. Bank of Chattanooga v. Radford Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The Hughes Lumber Company, a corporation organized under the law of Tennessee, and doing a manufacturing business at Chattanooga, issued its interest-bearing bonds, to the extent of 8200,000, secured by a mortgage upon its real estate, machinery, etc., to R. M. Barton, Jr., as trustee.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The Hughes Lumber Company, a corporation organized under the law of Tennessee, and doing a manufacturing business at Chattanooga, issued its interest-bearing bonds, to the extent of 8200,000, secured by a mortgage upon its real estate, machinery, etc., to R. M. Barton, Jr., as trustee. Ten of these bonds, each for 81,000, were pledged by it to the Radford Trust Company, a corporation organized under the law of the state of Virginia, as collateral security for an indebtedness of about an equal amount due…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
Before considering the merits, there is a preliminary question for-consideration, involving the jurisdiction of the circuit court to pronounce any decree in this cause. The jurisdiction of the court seems never to have been brought to the notice of the court below until after an amended and supplemental bill had been filed by complainant, and the cause about ready for hearing. In considering this question of jurisdiction, we shall therefore consider the status of the cause-as it appears upon both the -original and amended bills. If the court had jurisdiction at the time a motion was first…
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