CEN'rRAL TRUST CO. V. WABASH, ST. L. & P. RY. CO.
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for final hearing, ,because they were used on the motion for rehearing, which resulted in a dismissal of the bill as upon a final hearing. Spill v. Celluloid Ma.nuf'g Co., 21 Fed. Rep. 531. But the reference made to these depositions upon that hearing did not change their nature, nor affect their standing as evidence. They were in the case for the purposes for which they were taken, and were taxable or not as the law provided. There does not appear to be any provision of law for taxing them 'differently because they came to be used for other purposes. The taxation of the clerk, in the respects appealed from, does appear to be erroneous. Taxation affirmed.
CENTRAL TRUST Co. and others v. WABASH, ST. L. & P. By. Co. (BOUTWELL and others, Intervenors.)l (Oircuit Oourt, E. D. Missouri. September 27, 1886.) RAILnoADS-MoRTGAGES-LIENS- LACHES.
Where a claim for damages for the loss of property in the course of transportation, against a railroad in the hands of receivers, originated more than three years before the appointment of such receivers, held, that the claimant was not entitled to any priority over mortgage creditors, notwithstanding the fact that negotiations for the purpose of settling the claim had been carried on between the claimant and the railroad· company from the time of the loss until the receivers were appointed.
In Equity. The intervenors sue for the value of four car-loads of grain which the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company undertook, before being placed in the hands of a receiver, to transport to Troy, New York, and there deliver to intervenors, but which it failed to so transport and deliver; and the intervenors pray that the sum claimed to be due them be ordered to be paid out of the rents and profits of the property in the hands of the receivers of said road. The matter was referred to a master, and submitted to him on an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that said railway company received said grain for transportation, and transported it as far as Toledo, Ohio, where the different car-loads arrived at the following dates, viz.: Two car-loads, December 10, 1880; one carload, December 20, 1880; and one car-load, January 21, 1881; that all four car-loads were negligently detained at Toledo until February 11, 1881, when they were all greatly damaged by a flood, which was an act of God, and could not have been foreseen, but which would have been avoided if the grain had been forwarded to Troy within a. reasonable time; that, after being damaged by the flood, the grain lReported by Benj. F. Rex, Esq., of the St. Louis bar.
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FEDERAL REPORTER,
was sold by the railroad company; that said comp;tny has retained the proceeds of said s.ale; that the intervenors were engaged with said company in investigating the cause of the loss of said grain, and in negotiating for the purpose of effecting a settlement of their claim from the time of the 10s8 until the appointment of a receiver herein; and that on March 24, 1884, said company offered to compromise the claim for 50 cents on the dollar. The receivers herein were appointed May 28, 1884. The master reports that the intervenors are not entitled to recover the full value of their grain, but recommends that the receivers be ordered to pay, out of the rents and profits of the property in their charge not otherwise !tppropriated, the amount realized by said rail. road company from the sale of said grain. The receivers except to the master's report, (1) because the finding is against the law; (2) because the finding is for the intervenors; (3) because the sum allowed is allowed as an equitable lien. The intervenors also filed exceptions. Robert et Hitchcock, for intervenors. Well8 H. Blodgett, H. S. Pric8t, and Geo. S. Grover, for receivers. TREAT, J., (orally.) In the intervening petition of Boutwell & Son, the intervenor excepted to the report of the master. The exceptions will be overruled. There are three exceptions filed by the receivers. The third exception will be sustained; the other two over' ruled. The effect of this is that the amount for which the Wabash Company should have responded in 1881 is allowa,ble against the Wabash Corporation, as a corporation, and not against the receivers, or the funds in their hands earned since their appointment, to be made prior in right to the mortgages. It is nothing but a debt at large against the corporation, and not prior in right to the mortgages.
WILLIAMS and another v. MORRISON and another. J (Circuit Court, E. D. Missouri. 1. LICENSE-TENANTS IN COMMON-QUARRIES ·
October, 1886.)
.A. license to work a quarry, given by one of several tenants in common, is valid.
2. SAME-LICENSE. HOW TERMINABLE. 3. TRE.'lPASS-REPLEVIN.
Such a license is terminable on notice.
A trespasser who takes stone from a quarry, and leaves it upon the premises. cannot "eplevy it in case it is seized by the owner of the land.
'Edited by Benj. F. Rex, Esq., of the St. Louis bar.