Rinehart S. Cohill vs. the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1938-1940

The case of Rinehart S. Cohill vs. the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company was filed as a result of the dispersal of funds from the sale of canal property to pay off the bond issue of 1878 without satisfying debts from the bond issue of 1844. This series consists of three bound court documents and one file of related materials. Two of the three bound court documents consist of briefs filed in the case, one for the appellant and one for the appellees; both are dated October 1939. The appellant brief outlines the basis of Cohill's appeal, and the appellee brief responds to each of Cohill's objections. The third bound document is a transcript of record for the case, dated March 20, 1939.

The file of related documents consists of correspondence between William Preston Lane, Jr., Leo H. Miller, and E. A. Howell (Cohill's lawyers), and R. S. B. Hartz, one of the canal company receivers. This file also contains Lane's research notes, several reproductions of earlier precedent-setting court documents, and petitions originating from the George S. Brown case that contain auditor's information pertaining to Cohill's appeal. This series also includes the appeals court finding in the case, dated December 13, 1939.

This series is arranged chronologically.