Supreme Court of the United States March 2, 1891, 33 (Covington Stock-Yards Co. v. Keith)

Mr. Justice Harlan

delivered the opinion-of the court.

On the 28th of January, 1886, George T. Bliss and Isaac E. Gates instituted in the court below a suit in equity against the Kentucky Central Railroad Company, a corporation of Ken

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tucky, for the foreclosure of a mortgage or deed of trust given ,to secure the payment of bonds of that company for a large amount; in which suit a receiver