Case Name: BIBBER-WHITE CO. v. WHITE RIVER VAL. ELECTRIC R. CO.
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of Vermont
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1901-09-03
Citations: 110 F. 473
Docket Number: 
Parties: BIBBER-WHITE CO. v. WHITE RIVER VAL. ELECTRIC R. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 110
Pages: 473–473

Head Matter:
BIBBER-WHITE CO. v. WHITE RIVER VAL. ELECTRIC R. CO.
(Circuit Court, D. Vermont.
September 3, 1901.)
Kailboads — Receivership—Sauk of Property.
A court will not order tlie sale of railroad property in the hands of receivers, where the irarpose of the receivership was to secure the completion of the road, to save to the company certain subsidies and subscriptions. the right to which has been pledged by the receivers to raise funds, until the road lias been so completed as to assure their collection.
In Equity. Petition for sale of property in hands of receivers.
See 107 Fed. 176.
Eleazer R. Waterman, for petitioner.
Chas. M. Bruce, for receivers.
Arthur H. Wellman, for Jose, Parker & Co.
Frank Plumley, for Ward & Douglass.

Opinion:
WHEELER, District Judge.
This cause has been heard upon a petition of Samuel Williams for a sale of the railroad and property in the hands of the receivers. The principles invoked for the petition that a receivership should be terminated as soon as practicable after its purposes have been accomplished are recognized as well established and salutary. Vermont & C. R. Co. v. Vermont Cent. R. Co., 50 Vt. 500. This receivership was created for the purpose of saving to the corporation its subsidies, voted by towns and subscribed upon conditions requiring prompt action in building the road, as well as for the purpose of completing the road. These subsidies are an important part of the property of the corporation; the right to them lias been used by the receivers in connection with the construction of the road, and they have become involved with it by assignments; the road is not so far perfected as to leave them beyond dispute; and altogether the property does not appear to be now so well salable as to warrant forcing a sale of it in its present condition. The purposes of the receivership have not been accomplished, and a sale of the property before further accomplishment does not now seem to he wise.
Petition dismissed.