Connor v. Tennessee Cent. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from üxe Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. The Tennessee Central Railroad Company is a Tennessee corporation, authorized to construct and operate about 60 miles of railroad beginning at Monterey, in Putnam county, Tenn., and extending to a junction with the Cincinnati Southern Railway fit or near Glen Mary. In September, 3893. said railroad company entered into a contract with the appellant, J. II.
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Appeal from üxe Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. The Tennessee Central Railroad Company is a Tennessee corporation, authorized to construct and operate about 60 miles of railroad beginning at Monterey, in Putnam county, Tenn., and extending to a junction with the Cincinnati Southern Railway fit or near Glen Mary. In September, 3893. said railroad company entered into a contract with the appellant, J. II. Con-nor, for the complete construction of said railroad, including the ironing of its road and the construction of depots, water tanks, switches, etc.;…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
1. This coart is not sitting as a court of error to review either the original decree of the circuit court in favor of J. H. Connor against the Tennessee Central Railroad Company, nor the decree of the state chancery court in the creditors’ suit of J. C. Walker and others against the Tennessee Central Railroad Company, under which the present appellee, the Tennessee Central Railway Compa ny, obtained its title. Those decrees are final. They art; here only collaterally brought into question, and all the principles which relate to a collateral attack have application when we come to consider…
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