Legal Opinion

Kelly v. Calhoun

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 18, 1878No. 1012PublishedCited by 46 opinions

Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Western District of Tennessee. Tbe facts are stated in .tbe opinion of tbe court

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

Tbe appellees, Calhoun and Meyer, are tbe grantees in á deed of trust covering the Paducah and Memphis Railroad, which has its northern terminus at Paducah, Ky., and its Southern at Memphis, Tenn. A corporation known as the ■Paducah and Memphis Railroad Company, and authorized td build the road, executed the deed of trust to secure the pay* ment of certain liabilities therein described. The deed, bearing date the first day of February, 1872, was acknowledgéd the fifth of that month, and duly lodged for record in the proper office in Shelby County the 9th of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Carpenter v. DexterSupreme Court of the United States · 1869

3Cited by46 opinions

  1. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. SpratleySupreme Court of the United States · 1899
  2. Roller v. HollySupreme Court of the United States · 1900
  3. Figuers v. FlyTennessee Supreme Court · 1916
  4. McAllester v. Aldridge (In Re Anderson)District Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1983
  5. American Soda Fountain Co. v. StolzenbachSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1908

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