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elsewhere, he must have left it invested with himself. He had, by the Will, absolute control. The church does not seem to have a. right to follow the rest of the estate for want of a safe investment of its legacy, merely. Bill dismissed.
SOWLES v. WITTERS et aJ. (Circuit Court, D. Vermont. MORTGAGES-FORECLOSURE-EXTINGUISHMENT.
March 11, 1893.)
An executor holding two mortgages, with condition broken, on Vermont lands, took another mortgage of the same and other lands, individually, upon an agreement that, the original mortgages shoJ].1d remain in force until the new mortgage was paid. SUbsequently he foreclosed the last mortgage, and; atter expiration of the time of redemption, took possession. lle'U,' that this operated as a purchase of' the land in satisfaction of the 'debt,' 'and extinguished, the original mortgages;
In Equity. Bill by Edward A. Sowles, executor, etc., against Chester W. Witters, receiver of the First National Bank of St. Albans, and George Bremmer,to foreclose certain mortgages. Decree dismissing bill. Edward A. Sowles and Henry A. Burt, for orator. Chester W. Witters, pro se.
WHEELER, District Judge. The orator, as executor, held two mortgages against the defendant BreIllI1ler, with condition broken. Thereupon the mortgagor made another mortgage, of the same and other lands, for the same amount, with extended times' of payment to the or/.\tor, individually. He foreclosed the and, after the time' ofredemptionexp'ired, took possession. Aft.er that he mort· gaged the whole to the Firtst, National Bank of St. Albans. The defendant Witters, as receiver, has foreclosed this 'mortgage, and the time of has' expired. , This bill isbi'bught to foreclose the two alle,gingan agreement between the orator and the Ill0rtgagor, at the time of the makiI/.g of the second mortgage, that', ilie original should not be discharged, but should remain in force until the second should be paid, and that, as fast as the principal and interest should be paid 'on the latter, the same should apply, and be payment upon the former, and that the mortgage to the bank was given upon individual indebtedness of the orator, with notice of theorigiIi of the property. ' A decree of foreclosure, with expiration of the time of redemption operates as a purchase of the estate in satisfaction of the debt. Lovell 3 Vt. 581; Paris v. Hulett, 26 Vt. 308; pevereaux 1". Fairbanks, 52 Vt. 587. Thus the whole estate of the mortgagor, by proceedings upon the orator's mortgage, passed to the orator" i:9dividuallY.' The original mortgages were personal assets in theha;iids of the executor, and could be, :collected, assigned, or disposed of" as such, by him. R. L. Vt. § 2150; Collamer v. Langdon, 29" Vt. ,32. When he converted the mortgages to his own use, he became chargeable for them, as for other personal assets. He
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was, in effect, charged with them, by being ordered to pay legacies to a much larger amount, and exonerated from such charge by the residuary legatee. Sowles v. Witters, 39 Fed. Rep. 403; Sowles v. Bank, 54 Fed. Rep. 564. No estate was left in the original mortgagor, for the original mortgages to operate upon. It went in execution of the agreement, if made, by paying the second mortgage, and, according to the terms of the agreement, pro tanto, the original mortgages. Bill dismissed. PLATT v. PIDLADELPIDA & R. R. CO. et at (Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts. No. 3.112. RECEIVERS-ANCILLARy-ApPOINTMENT IN
March 2, 1893.)
The circuit court for the first circuit will follow the general practice In the federal courts, of granting an ancillary receivership on ex parte applications, but without prejudice to a full consideration of the legality of the practice on subsequent motion to dissolve the order.
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PAHTE PROCEEDINGS.
In Equity. Bill by Thomas C. Platt against the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company and others for the appointment of an ancillary receiver. Prayer of bill granted, and receiver appointed. William M. Richardson and Charles E. Hellier, for complainant. Robert M. Morse and Elmer P. Howe, for defendants. Before PUTNAM, Circuit Judge, and NELSON, District Judge.
PER CURIAM. In Mercantile Trust Co. v. Kanawha & O. Ry. CQ., 39 Fed. Rep. 337, Justice Harlan and Judge Jackson held in a formal opinion that the circuit courts of the United States cannot take jurisdiction of a bill whose only purpose is an ancillary receivership; but in other districts such bills have been frequently entertained and acted upon, generally, if not always, on ex parte proceedings, and without argument. The same has been done ex parte on several occasions in this court. We will at present follow this practice, stating, however, that this is without prejudice to a full consideration of the question if hereafter a motion is made to dissolve or annul the order. The order offered may be entered with such modification as to its details as Judge Nelson shall require, if any. GRANT et al. v. EAST & WEST R. CO. OF ALABAMA et al (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit No. 45. 1. RAILROAD COMPANIEs-STaCK-PAYMENT IN PROPERTy-OVERVALUATION.
February 6, 1893.)
Code Ala. 1876, § 1824, requires subscriptions to railroad stock, which are payable In labor or property, to be taken at their money value, which must be stated in the subscription list A railroad company adopted a resolution to sell all its property to another company for $750,000, one half in stock and one half in bonds of the purchaser, and subsequently entered a subscription for $375,000 of stock, "to be paid for in the railroad property" of the seller, "of the value of the said sum of $375,000."