Beals v. . Benjamin

This action was brought by the plaintiff’s testator, Thomas Beals, as plaintiff, to recover the amount of certain promissory notes held by him, made by the defendants. The referee who tried the action, found the following facts:

That in June, 1855, the directors of the Elmira and Canandaigua railroad company, a corporation created by the laws of-this State, were running the road of said company from Canandaigua to Jefferson, and two other roads of other corporations, one of them from Niagara Falls to Canandaigua, and the other from Jefferson to Elmira, under some arrangement with said other…