UNITED STATES TRUST CO. v. WABASH RAILWAY

Nos. 51, 57.

150 U.S. 287 (1893)

UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY v. WABASH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. WABASH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 20, 1893.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward W. Sheldon and Mr. Theodore Sheldon for the United States Trust Company.

Mr. F.W. Lehmann for the Wabash Western Railway Company.

Mr. Wells H. Blodgett filed a brief for the Wabash Western Railway Company.

Mr. Thomas H. Hubbard filed a brief for the Wabash Western Railway Company.


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

Stripped of its complications, this case involves to a certain extent the same question disposed of by this court in Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad v. Humphreys, 145 U.S. 82, namely, whether the receivers of the Wabash system took possession of the leased lines under such circumstances as to...

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