Ames v. Union Pac. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska
These were receivership and mortgage foreclosure proceedings against the Union Pacific Railway Company and the various subordinate or allied companies forming the Union Pacific System.
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These were receivership and mortgage foreclosure proceedings against the Union Pacific Railway Company and the various subordinate or allied companies forming the Union Pacific System. The cause was heard on exceptions of the American Loan & Trust Company, trustee for the bondholders of the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Railway Company, to the report of the master charging the deficiency arising from the operation of the railroads of that company as a preferential claim upon its property.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Railway Company has 324 miles of railroad which connect with the railroads of the Union Pacific Railway Company at Denver in the state of Colorado,- and extend into the mining districts west of that city. The Union Pacific Railway Company has 1,827.59 miles of railroads, and, among these, it has a main line, extending from Council Bluffs, in the state of Iowa, to Ogden, in the state of Utah, and another extending from Kansas City, in the state of Missouri, to Denver, in the state of Colorado. Prior to October, 1893, the Denver, Leadville…
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