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ROLSTON v. MISSOURI FUND COM'RS.

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120 U.S. 390 (1887)

7 S.Ct. 599

30 L.Ed. 721

ROLSTON, v. MISSOURI FUND COMMISSIONERS. MISSOURI FUND COMMISSIONERS, v. ROLSTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 7, 1887.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John F. Dillon and Mr. Elihu Root for Rolston and others. Mr. Sidney Bartlett also filed a brief for same.

Mr. D.A. De Armond and Mr. John B. Henderson (Mr. George H. Shields was on their brief), for the Missouri Fund Commissioners. Mr. B.G. Boone, Attorney General of Missouri filed a brief for same.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit in equity brought by Rosewell G. Rolston, Heman Dowd, and Oren Root, Jr., trustees in a mortgage made by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, a Missouri corporation, to restrain the executive officers of Missouri from selling the mortgaged property under prior statutory mortgages in favor of the state, on the ground that the liability for which the earlier liens were created had been...

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