Keokuk & Western Railroad v. Scotland County

Citations

• 152 U.S. 318
• 14 S. Ct. 605
• 38 L. Ed. 457
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2121

Syllabus

<p>A railroad company which derives its title to its road from a foreclosure of a mortgage, given before the commencement of a suit by stockholders to enjoin the collection of taxes upon the property so sold and conveyed, does not occupy a relation to the plaintiffs in that suit, which entitles it to file a bill of revivor, or to invoke the decree in the suit as an estoppel.</p> <p>The purchaser under a mortgage is not entitled to the benefit of an estoppel under a decree obtained in a suit begun after the execution of the mortgage.</p>