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OLD COLONY TRUST CO. v. SEATTLE

No. 194.

271 U.S. 426 (1926)

OLD COLONY TRUST COMPANY v. CITY OF SEATTLE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. James B. Howe, Hugh A. Tait, and Edgar L. Crider for appellant, submitted.

Messrs. Howard A. Hanson and George A. Meagher, with whom Messrs. Ewing D. Colvin and Thomas J.L. Kennedy were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

In the beginning of the year 1919 the Puget Sound Power & Light Company owned and was operating two public utilities in the City of Seattle — one a power and lighting system and the other a street railway system. It still owns and operates the power and lighting system. and the Old Colony Trust Company is the trustee in a mortgage which was given thereon...

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