Bridgeport Electric & Ice Co. v. Meader
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. This was a suit by A. II. Meader, trustee of the Blymer Ice Machine Company, against the Bridgeport Electric & Ice Company, to declare and foreclose an equitable mortgage. The circuit court rendered a decree for the complainant. Defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity, in which the following facts are alleged: A. L, Soulard was a promoter of the Bridgeport Electric & Ice Company. On May 7, 1891, he entered into a contract with the plaintiff for the purchase of a machine for the manufacture of ice. It was stipulated in writing that the Bridgeport Electric & Ice Company should pay the plaintiff the sum of f23,000 for the machine, as follows: $5,750 on its delivery at Bridgeport, Ala.; $5,750-when it had withstood a 15 days’ test, producing 30,000 pounds of good merchantable ice per day. For the balance the…
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