Alabama & C. R. v. Jones
United States Circuit Court
[Review of proceedings in. tie district court of tlie United States for the.middle district of Alabama.] [In bankruptcy. Petition by the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad Company for review ■ of a decree of the district court adjudicating the company bankrupt, on petition of William A C. Jones. Decree reversed.]
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
On the eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company was, on the petition of William A C. Jones, adjudged a bankrupt by the district court for the middle district of Aabama, sitting in bankruptcy. This petition is filed to review and reverse that adjudication.
The facts, as developed by the pleadings and testimony, are these: the Aabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company is a railroad corporation created by the laws of Aabama. A corporation of the same name, and with the same board of directors and the same officers, is…
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