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Thomas C. Durant vs Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company district court decree, Iowa County, Iowa, February 1862

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and Missouri Railroad Company are and have ever been mere trustees of said lands - and never became [vested?] with the legal or [equitable?] title therein, which they could lawfully encumber by deed or judgment - and that the said trustees Franklin [Hamm?] and Thomas E. Walker and George S. Carmichael & John E. Henry executors of Benjamin F. Carmichael deceased parties defendant - be and are hereby forever enjoined from setting up any title to said [illegible] [described?]   lands - under their [illegible] deeds and judgment - against the title of the said Thomas C. Durant - complainant. 
William W. [illegible] judge
State of Iowa
Iowa County [signed?] [I.S.J.?] Morrison clerk
of Iowa District Court do hereby certify that the [illegible] and foregoing is a true full and correct transcript of the decree made and enacted on the records of said Court in a cause tried therein. In [which?] Thomas C. Durant was complainant and the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad

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and Missouri Railroad Company are and have ever been mere trustees of said lands - and never became [vested?] with the legal or [equitable?] title therein, which they could lawfully encumber by deed or judgment - and that the said trustees Franklin [Hamm?] and Thomas E. Walker and George S. Carmichael & John E. Henry executors of Benjamin F. Carmichael deceased parties defendant - be and are hereby forever enjoined from setting up any title to said [illegible] [described?] lands - under their [illegible] deeds and judgment - against the title of the said Thomas C. Durant - complainant. William W. [illegible] judge State of Iowa Iowa County [signed?] [I.S.J.?] Morrison clerk of Iowa District Court do hereby certify that the [illegible] and foregoing is a true full and correct transcript of the decree made and enacted on the records of said Court in a cause tried therein. In [which?] Thomas C. Durant was complainant and the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad