Callanan v. Keeseville, Ausable Chasm & Lake Champlain Railroad
New York Supreme Court
Action by Michael J. Callanan for himself and other stockholders against the Keeseville, Ausable Chasm & Lake Champlain Railroad Company and others. On motion of the executors of Nathaniel B. Powers, a deceased defendant, to be permitted to intervene.
1Opinion of the CourtJohn M. Kellogg, J.
The executors of Nathaniel B. Powers, a deceased defendant, seek to be made a party defendant in his place, claiming an absolute right to intervene under section 452 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The action is to set aside a contract between the railroad company and Joseph A. Powers and Walter H. Mansfield, and to cancel stock and bonds claimed to have been illegally issued by them while controlling the company, and, if the stock and bonds have been transferred, so that they cannot be reached, to recover the value thereof from the defendants, who collusively disposed of them. The defendants…
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