Meyer v. Hornby
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States .for the District of Iowa. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
Appellants, as trustees in a railroad mortgage, brought suit to foreclose it, and made Hornby a defendant. He set up a claim to a mechanic’s lien, which was allowed. The mortgagor and owner of the road was the Davenport and St. Paul Railroad Company, incorporated to build a road from Davenport, in Iowa, to St. Paul, in Minnesota. The mortgage, executed May 16, 1872, embraced the entire line of road, and all present and after-acquired property therewith connected. The route was surveyed from Davenport to St. Paul, and work some three miles -out from the city of Davenport was commenced and…
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