Boisot v. Amarillo St. Ry. Co.
District Court, N.D. Texas
In Equity. Suit by Emile K. Boisot, trustee, against the Amarillo Street Railway Company, in which the city of Amarillo intervened. The plaintiff trustee, alleging himself to be the holder of $125,000 first mortgage bonds of the defendant company, asked the appointment of a receiver. The company filed answer admitting the facts alleged, and with its consent a receiver was appointed.
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In Equity. Suit by Emile K. Boisot, trustee, against the Amarillo Street Railway Company, in which the city of Amarillo intervened. The plaintiff trustee, alleging himself to be the holder of $125,000 first mortgage bonds of the defendant company, asked the appointment of a receiver. The company filed answer admitting the facts alleged, and with its consent a receiver was appointed. Thereafter the city of Amarillo intervened, and alleged that the city had duly passed an ordinance providing for the paving of Polk street, and had levied an assessment against the defendant company for its…
1Opinion of the CourtJack, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The order appointing the master did not in terms provide that he should report his findings of fact and conclusions of law, but he was authorized to “hear evidence and seasonably make his report thereon,” and it was evidently so understood at the time by the parties themselves, as evi.denced by the fact that at the beginning of the taking of the evidence the master, when asked by counsel for the receiver as to whether or *841not the documents filed should be copied into the record, replied that the transcript should contain sufficient data to show what his…
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- Chicago v. SheldonSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- City of Worcester v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Sioux City Street Railway Co. v. Sioux CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- City of New Haven v. Fair Haven & Westville RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1871
- City of Rochester v. . Rochester Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
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