American Loan & Trust Co. v. East & West R. Co.

• Decision Date: 30 October 1889
• Citation: 40 F. 182
• Parties: AMERICAN LOAN & TRUST CO. v. EAST & WEST R. CO. et al.
• Court: U.S. District Court — Northern District of Georgia

40 F. 182

AMERICAN LOAN & TRUST CO. v. EAST & WEST R. CO. et al.

United States Circuit Court, N.D. Georgia.

October 30, 1889

To the Honorable, the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for said District:

The petition of Charles P. Ball, receiver, appointed by the Honorable Don A. Pardee, respectfully shows unto your honors that one H. F. Alsabrook has brought suit for personal damages against your petitioner in the superior court of Polk county, in the state of Georgia, and in the petition filed therein the said Alsabrook alleges that on the 17th day of July, 1889, he obtained from the Honorable Emory Speer the following order: 'Leave granted as prayed, the judge of the northern district being out of the state. July 17th 1889. EMORY SPEER, U.S. Judge,'-- all of which is more fully shown in the copy of the petition which was served upon one of the agents employed by your petitioner in conducting and operating the said railroad that the alleged injuries were received from no fault or negligence on their part; that the plaintiff in said petition is a resident citizen of Cleburne county in the state of Alabama; and that the said alleged injuries were received within the state of Alabama and petitioner prays that the said H. F. Alsabrook may be cited to appear before your honors at such time and place as your honors may direct, to show cause, if any he has, why said alleged order, granting leave to bring said suit, should not be revoked, and that, pending said notice, the said H. F Alsabrook may, by the order of your honors, be restrained from further prosecuting said suit until the hearing and determination of this petition. CHAS. P. BALL, Receiver.

Alexander T. Loudon, for receiver.

T. N Broyles, for Alsabrook.

PARDEE J.

This cause came on to be further heard upon the petition of Charles P. Ball, receiver, in relation to the suit brought by one H. F. Alsabrook against the receiver in the superior court of Polk county in the state of Georgia, and was argued by Mr. Alexander T. Loudon for the receiver and Mr. T. N Broyles for Alsabrook; whereupon, the court considering that under the proper construction of section 603 of the Revised Statutes it is only when the office of district judge of the northern district is vacant that the judge of the southern district has authority, under said section, to discharge judicial duties in the northern district, it is ordered and adjudged that...