Legal Opinion

Harmon v. Blackwell

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided May 2, 1916No. 2748PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio; Howard C. Hollister, Judge. Petition by E. Blackwell, administrator of James Brown, deceased, for an order directing Judson Harmon and another, receivers of the Cincinnati, Plamilton & Dayton Railway Company, to surrender to the administrator a sum of money upon his release of a compromised claim. From an order granting the petition, the receivers appeal.

1Per curiam

This appeal is from an order of the court below directing the receivers to deliver and surrender to the administrator $608.40 upon his release to them of a compromised claim for personal injuries resulting in the death of the administrator’s decedent, James Brown, prior to the receivership and through alleged negligence of the railway company. The order was based upon undisputed facts which were brought to the attention of the court in the form of a motion, in effect an intervention, filed in the receivership proceeding. On June *44130, 1914, an agreement was made between the railway company and…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Union Trust Co. v. Illinois Midland Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
  2. Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  3. Marmet Coal Co. v. People's Coal Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1915
  4. Grand Rapids & I. Ry. Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1914

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Hoover v. PurselSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
  2. Schmitt v. DietterleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1918

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