| U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri | Sep 27, 1886
(orally.) In the intervening petition of Boutwell & Son, the intervenor excepted to the report of the master. The exceptions will be overruled. There are three exceptions filed by the receivers. The third exception will be sustained; the other two overruled.
The effect of this is that the amount for which the Wabash Company should have responded in 1881 is allowable against the Wabash Corporation, as a corporation, and not against the receivers, or the funds in their hands earned since their appointment, to be made prior in right to the mortgages. It is nothing but a debt at large against the corporation, and not prior in right to the mortgages.