Clyde v. Richmond & D. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
These were petitions filed, respectively, by the Chester & Lenoir Harrow-Gauge Railroad Company and William Henry Harden, receiver of the Cheraw & Chester Harrow-Gauge Railroad Company, against the receivers appointed in the suits brought against the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company by William P. Clyde and others and by the Central Trust Company of New York.
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These were petitions filed, respectively, by the Chester & Lenoir Harrow-Gauge Railroad Company and William Henry Harden, receiver of the Cheraw & Chester Harrow-Gauge Railroad Company, against the receivers appointed in the suits brought against the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company by William P. Clyde and others and by the Central Trust Company of New York. The object of the petitions was to require the said receivers to pay certain arrears of taxes upon the roads of the petitioners.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMOHTOH, Circuit Judge.
These two petitions, presenting similar facts and the same questions of law, were heard and will be decided together.
The Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad Company controlled a railroad having its termini in Charlotte, H. C., and Augusta, Ga. It passed through the town of Ches ter, S. C., and at that point met the two narrow-gauge railroads owned by the petitioners above named, respectively. On 22d September, 1882, a lease was executed by the Chester & Lenoir Harrow-Gauge Railroad Company to the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad Company, of all its track,…
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