Illinois Supreme Court May 11, 1897 (Craft v. Indiana, Decatur & Western Railway Co.)

Mr. Justice Wilkin

delivered the opinion of the court:

On December 31, 1875, the Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield Railway Company executed to Emmett and Crane, trustees, a mortgage to secure the payment of bonds, to the amount of $1,800,000, on its one hundred and fifty-two miles of railroad from Decatur to Indianapolis, “together with its equipments, appliances, franchises, rents, issues