Case ID: fla_41/html/0689-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Jacksonville, Mayport, Pablo Railway and Navigation Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of Florida, and The Mercantile Trust Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of New York, Appellants, vs. George F. Broughton, John N. C. Stockton, John S. Fairhead, Henry C. Strawn and Benjamin R. Powell, partners doing business as Fairhead, Strawn & Co., and Joseph Hathorne, Appellees.
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Duval county; Rhydon M. Call, Judge.
    H. H. Buckman, for Jacksonville, Mayport, Pablo Railway and Navigation Company.
    Bisbee & Rinehart, Henderson & Raney, for Mercantile Trust Company.
    W. B. Young, for George F. Broughton.
    W. H. Baker, for John N. C. Stockton.
    Stephen E. Foster, for Fairhead, Strawn & C<>.
    A. H. King, for Joseph Hathorne.
   The bill in this cause was filed by George F. Broughton against the Jacksonville, Mayport, Pablo Railway & Navigation Company and The Mercantile Trust Company. After such bill was filed Fairhead, Strawn & Co., Joseph Hathorne, John N. C. Stockton and Charles F. Warriner filed petitions of intervention which were allowed. There was decree authorizing sale of the railroad, and ordering distribution of proceeds, from which decree the Jacksonville, Mayport, Pablo Railway and Navigation Company and the Mercantile Trust Company appealed.

Appeal dismissed on praecipe of counsel for appellants.