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WADE v. CHICAGO, SPRINGFIELD &C. RAILROAD

Nos. 247, 248.

149 U.S. 327 (1893)

13 S.Ct. 892

37 L.Ed. 755

WADE, v. CHICAGO, SPRINGFIELD AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY. AMERICAN LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, v. WADE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1893.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederick N. Judson, Mr. Charles S. Taussig and Mr. Samuel P. Wheeler for Wade and Hopkins, Trustees, appellants in No. 247 and appellees in No. 248.

Mr. Adrian H. Joline for Pratt, Trustee, the Mercantile Trust Company and the Central Trust Company, appellees in No. 247; and for Pratt, Trustee, appellant in No. 248.

MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellants, Belle N.B. Wade and Warner M. Hopkins, testamentary trustees of the estate of Robert B. Wade, as holders of fifty first-mortgage bonds of the Chicago, Springfield and St. Louis Railroad Company, on January 27, 1887, filed their bill in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois, for the purpose of enforcing a mortgage lien upon the property and railway of said company...

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