Supreme Court of the United States May 4, 1885, 253 (MacAlester's Administrator v. Maryland)

Me. Justice Geay,

after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

An ordinary mortgagee of real estate, who has not taken possession uncler his mortgage, is not entitled to the rents and profits as against the mortgagor or his attaching creditors ; and the same rule holds good in the case of a mortgage by a railroad, canal or bridge corporation of its tolls and