Dunham v. The Cincinnati Peru Railway Company’s Empirical Analysis

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29 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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1. ““Contractor, under the circumstances, could acquire no greater interest in the road than was held by the company. He did not exact any formal conveyance; but, if he had, and one had been executed and delivered, the rule would be the same. Registry of the first mortgage was notice to all the world of the lien of the complainant, and in that point of view the case does not even show a hardship upon the contractor, as he must have known, when he accepted the agreement, that he took the road subject to the rights of the bondholders. Acting, as he did, with a full knowledge of all the circumstances, he has no right to complain if his agreement is less remunerative than it would have been if the bondholders had joined with the company in making the contract. No effort appears to have been made to induce them to become a party to the agreement, and it is now too late to remedy the oversight.””

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fogg v. Blair · Atlantic Trust Co. v. Woodbridge Canal & Irrigation Co.