Stevens v. Rutland & Burlington Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in Chancery, the nature and object of ■which are sufficiently stated in the opinion which was delivered by
1Opinion of the Court
Bennett, Chancellor.
This is a bill preferred before the chancellor of the third judicial circuit, against the Rutland and Burlington Railroad Company and three of its directors, by a stock holder in the company; the object of which is to obtain an injunction against the defendants, restraining them from applying the funds of the corporation, or pledging its credit for the purpose of constructing a railroad from Burlington, in the county of Chittenden, to Swanton, in the county of Franklin.
It appears that the legislature of this state, at their session in 1843, granted a charter of…
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