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tion of a railroad from Portland to Puget Sound, and that the joint resolution of :May 31, made an additional grant f()r that portion Qf the road, but in no way affected lands which had been previous to that date granted to another company; and the argument assumes that the lands in controversy were granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company by the aet of July 2, 1864, and therefore were not affected by the joint resolution of :May 31, 1870; in other words, that it is not to be presumed that congress intended to make two distinct grants of the same lands. And it is further assumed that, as the company failed to earn the lands in controversy by compliance with the conditions of the original grant, the title has reverted to the United States by force of the forfeiting act of September 29, 1890, notwithstanding the fact that the lands are within the limits of the grant as extended by the joint resolution of May 31, ]870, and contiguous to the railroad from Portland to Tacoma, which has been completed. I am constrained, however, by the decisions of the circuit court of appeals for this circuit in the cases of Oregon & C. R. Co. v. U. S., 23 C. C. A. 15, 77 Fed. 67-82, and Land Co. v. Wilcox, 25 C. C. A. 164, 79 Fed. 719, to hold that, as the Northern Pacific Railroad Company never made a definite location of any line of road between Portland and Wallula, the original land grant never took effect as to any land between said places; therefore the lands in controversy were, for aught that appears to the contrary, at the date of the joint resolution of. May 31, 1870, and at the time of the definite location of the railroad from Portland to Tacoma, nonmineral public lands of the United States, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and by said joint resolution the same were granted to the company upon conditions which have been performed, so that the title of the company and its vendees has become vested and perteet. Upon the authority of the cases last cited, the demurrer to the bill of complaint is overruled.

UNITED STA-TES TRUST CO. v. WESTERN CONTRA-CT CO. ECHOLS et aI. v. CENTRAL TRUST CO. WESTEHlN CONTRACT CO. v. EOHOLS et al. BROWN et al. v. WESTERN CONTRACT CO. (CIrcuit Court ot Appeals, Sixth CircuIt. July 6, 1897.) Nos. 445-448.

On Petition for Rehearing. The opinion on the original hearing is reported. in 81 Fed. 454. S.(}rupbs and HE;'lm Bruce, for Echols and others. W. O. Harris,. for Trust Co. Alex.P. Humphrey, for Western Oontract Co. Reargued before TAFT and LURTON, Circuit Judges, and SEVERENS, District Judge. TAFT, Circuit Judge. Apetition for rehearing and modification The mandate has of the judgment of the court herein has been

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gone down because the judgment of the court was entered more than 30 days before the filing of the petition. Counsel ask to have the mandate recaIled, because the printed opinion, upon which the petition for rehearing is based, was not filed until 29 days after the judgment of the court was entered. We think that the petitioner's counsel would have been in a better position had they applied to the court for an extension of the time within which to file a petition for rehearing before the 30 days after the entry of the judgment had expired. But we recognize the difficulty counsel may have in determining whether a petition for rehearing is to be filed before the printed opinion of the court has been examined, and we have to-day changed the rule for filing petitions for rehearing so as to make the period within which they must' be filed 30 days after the deposit of the printed opinion in the clerk's office. As we have concluded that the judgment in the cases under consideration should be modified somewhat, we are not disposed to enforce the rule strictly against the peti· tioner, and will order the mandate recalled for the purpose of mak· ing such modification. The first ground of the petition for rehearing is that the court, under its own reasoning, should have allowed the Western Contract Company to set off against the claim of the receiver of the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company at least the amount of interest which was due under its guaranty from the railway compan.v and was unpaid before the contract company took back the majority of stock in the Ohio Valley Railway Company. The petition for reo hearing states its ground as follows:
"The court seems to hold that the Western Contract Company would be entItled to Its set-off if it were not for the fact that by taking back the stock it has relleved the Chesapeake Company of Its guaranty. The court seems to hold that the contract company gave the Chesapeake Company control of the Valley road In consideration that the Chesapeake Company would guaranty the Valley bonds, of which the contract company was a large holder; that the reciprocal benefits to the parties were 'concurrent,-eontrol of the road on the one slde,receipt of interest on the other. AssumIng this to be true, the court bas failed to observe the fact that the Chesapeake Company did not pay the interest whIch fell due on the Valley bonds January 1, 1894, although It had control of the road during the sIx months represented by the interest which then matured. It seems to us, therefore, that to the extent of the interest 1894. we are entitled to have our offset allowed." which WIUl due January

Couns'el for the petition haveIIlisapplied the reasoning of the court. ·The'court did and does hold that the real consideration of the" c'ontract to part with a majority of stock of the Valley road by the Western Contract Company was the agreement on the part of the Chesapeake & Ohio SOtithwestern Company to guaranty the bonds of the'VaI.Iey Company, and that the ,other provisions of the contract with refe,rence to the deposit of bonds to payoff the liabilities of the Valley Company were only preliminaries which were to be regarded as executed before the execution of the contract in its main features began. Now, the Western Contract Company might have relied simply upon a suit to recover damages against the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company for failure to fulfill its guaranty, but the contract company did not do so. It stipulated in the contract that it might have the right to take back the majority of
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stock in the CQmpany, wlrlch was the main consideration for the guaranty. The court was amUs' of opinion that, as between the parties, this stipulation was, in effect, fora rescission of the contract, and that, like any rescission, it was a remedy inconsistent with a remedy by way of damages for a breach of the contract. The court therefore held, and still holds, that by taking back a majority of the stock, the contract company parted with all the right to hold the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company for a breach of any part of its contract of guaranty, whether tlu!.t breach occurred before or after the voluntary rescission of the contract by the Western Contract Company. The first point of the petition for rehearing is therefore overruled. The second objection to the judgment of the court stated in the petition for rehearing is that it was erroneous in holding that the claim of the United States Trust Company in the right of the Newport News Company to share in the security of the bouds deposited by the Western Contract Company was in fact a claim of the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, of which the Newport News Company was nothing but an assignee, and that as such assignee the Newport News Compauy, or its assignee, the United States Trust Company, wa"s entitled to the benefit of the security which the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestl:lrn Company, as the payor of the car-trust obligations, would be entItled to under its contract with the Western Contract Company. It is objected that the Unit· ed States Trust Company did not make any averments in its intervening petition justifying the inference that it contellded that the Newport News Company was the assignee of the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern in respect of the claim which it was asking to have paid in its intervening petition. The petitioner states, moreover, that such is ,not the fact, and intimates that, if the issue had been made by the United States Trust Company by a proper averment, it would have been met by a denial,and the proof' would not have supported the averment. We are still of opiniou that the facts of the record justify the ,inference which we drew. It is true, however, that the averment in the intervening petition of the United States Trust Company is not upon the point now mooted. To avoid any injustice in the cause, we have concluded not to make our judgment final in the matter. TJ:I,e judgment of the court heretofore rendered will be modified so as to remand to the lower court for the hearing of the issue whether the Newport News &. Mississippi Valley Compl;\;ny was in fact the assignee of the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern Company in respect of the claim arising from the payment by the Newport News Company of car-trust obligations of the Ohio Valley with leave to the United States Trust Company Railroad to amend its pleading so as to make this averment specific, and to the contract company to deny the same, and with leave to both to adduce evidence upon the issue thus joined. In the original judgment of this. court we taxed one-half of.the costs of the appeal against the receiver of the Ohesapeake & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, and one-half against the contract company and S. S. Brown. The counsel for the petitioner suggest that, if the court will examine

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the record, it will find that at least nine-tenths thereof relates solely to the claim made by the receiver of the Chesapeake Company to the preference for material and supplies furnished, which claim was defeated in the court below and also in this court, and with which claim the Western Contract Company and Brownhad nothing to do, and that the issue of the Western Contract Company and the others growing out of the bonds could have been presented in a very short record, which would have been very inexpensive both to copy and to print. We have examined the record in the light of this sugges. tion, and are convinced that there is some ground for the objection made to the judgment already entered. We shall therefore alter that judgment, and assess only one-fourth of the costs against the Western Contract Company and S. S. Brown, and three-fourths there' of against the receiver of the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company. The judgment of the court already made is modified in accordance with this opinion, and the cause is remanded to the circuit court for other proceedings not inconsistent with the original opinion as modified herein.
WHITESIDE v. SUPREME CONCLAVE IMPROVED ORDER OF HEP· TASOPHS. (Circuit Court, E. D. Tennessee, S. D. February 4, 1897.)
INSURANCE ORDER-AGENCY OF SUBORDINATE OFFICERS-EFFECT OF

of subordinate conclaves "shall at all times be deemed and held to be agent" and servants of the members of the conclaves of which they are elected officers, and not, in any sense, the agents or servants of the supreme conclave for any purpose whatever," and that all acts of any such officers relating to a benefit certificate shall be held and deemed to be the act of the person holding such certificate, and shall not be binding on the supreme con· clave. In an action on an insurance certificate issued to a member of a subordinate conclave, and payable, in the event of his death and good standing In the order, to plaintiff, his wife, her right to recover depended on the bind· Ing effect upon defendant of an extension of time for paying an assessment. granted by the collector of assessments of the subordinate conclave. The collector had been In the habit of granting extensions to plaintiff's husband and other members without objection from any quarter. In reality he was the agent of the supreIlle conclave, and acted distinctly for It In the matter of collecting and remitting assessments. Held, that the provisions above quoted could not override the actual facts, and that defendant was bound by the extension.

An assessment life Insurance order having a supreme conclave and subordinate conclaves provided In its constitution ftnd by-laws that the officers

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The defendant is an assessment life insurance order, chartered in the state of Maryland, and having a supreme conclave in that state and subordinate conclaves located throughout various other states, one of which is in Chattanooga, Tenn.
PlaintliI's husband was a member of the Chattanooga Conclave, and held a certificate for $5,000, payable, in the event of his death and good standing In the order at the time, to his wife, the plaintiff. The husband was severely wounded by an accidental gunshot, and died, by reason thereof, some 30 days thereafter. When a claim was made by the plaintiff, the defendant denied all liability, assigning as a reason the failure of the husband to pay an assessment call, and that, under the defendant's constitution and by-laws, he thereby sus.-