Petersburg Sav. & Ins. v. Dellatorre
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from ttie Circuit Court of the TJniíed Ktutes for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama. The appellants are the holders of receiver’s certificates Issued by the receiver of the Birmingham, Powderly & Bessemer Street-Railroad Company, appointed in two causes in the court below, In each of which the appellees’ were complainants and ¡lie said street-railroad company was defendant.
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Appeal from ttie Circuit Court of the TJniíed Ktutes for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama. The appellants are the holders of receiver’s certificates Issued by the receiver of the Birmingham, Powderly & Bessemer Street-Railroad Company, appointed in two causes in the court below, In each of which the appellees’ were complainants and ¡lie said street-railroad company was defendant. The last of those causes was a bill filed by the complainants to foreclose two mortgages executed by the defendant to said Mercantile Trust & Deposit Company, as trustee; its co-complainant,…
1Opinion of the CourtToulmin, District Judge
The questions raised by the assignments of error involve the priority of payment of the receiver’s certificates, the other debts contracted by him, of the allowances made by the court below, and of the reasonableness of said allowances. The record embraces three appeals, taken from three separate decrees rendered in the cause, the last of which was entered on November 9, 1894. As substantially the same questions are raised upon each of the appeals, we deem it necessary for the decision of the case to consider only the appeal from the last decree, which is confessedly final and appeal-able,…
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