FARMERS' LOAN &C. CO. v. NEWMAN

No. 253.

127 U.S. 649 (1888)

FARMERS' LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY v. NEWMAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 14, 1888.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. P. Henry Smyth for appellants.

Mr. Tilton Davis and Mr. John W. Noble for appellee. Mr. John C. Orrick was with them on the brief.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

From this history of the proceedings in the court below it satisfactorily appears:

1. That Newman, as trustee, had a lien upon the road south of Lexington — the same leased by the Lexington, Lake and Gulf Railway Company to the Burlington and Southwestern Railway Company for the benefit of the Linneus Branch of the latter corporation — prior and paramount to that...

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