Railroad Co. v. James
Cases that cite this one
5 later published cases cite this decision.
- National Foundry & Pipe Works, Ltd. v. Oconto Water Co. (U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin 1892)
- Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Boney (Ind. 1889)
- Barnes v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway (Supreme Court of the United States 1887)
- Williamson v. New Jersey Southern Railroad (N.J. 1878)
- Williamson v. New Jersey Southern Railroad (New Jersey Court of Chancery 1877)
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Opinion
delivered the opinion of the court.
The La Crosse and Milwaukee Company, by virtue of its charter and the proceedings under it, acquired a title in fee to the road-bed; and the rolling stock owned by it, and used and employed in connection with the road, is made a fixture by an express statute of the State of Wisconsin, and such, we *752 think, is the law according to the true construction of the charter, independent of the statute. * By the statute law of Wisconsin judgments are liens on real estate, and we do not doubt but that this judgment became a lieu on the road from the time of its rendition, and that a sale under a decree in chancery, and conveyance in pursuance thereof, confirmed by the court, passed the whole of the interest of the company existing at the time of its rendition to the purchaser. †
A great many objections have been taken to the decrees below, but those of any substance or force will be found answered by the principles above stated.
Decrees affirmed.
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