Whiting v. Malden & Melrose Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk on September 29, 1890, and afterwards amended, seeking to compel the defendant West End Street Railway Company to pay judgments against its alleged predecessor, the defendant Malden and Melrose Railroad Company.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk on September 29, 1890, and afterwards amended, seeking to compel the defendant West End Street Railway Company to pay judgments against its alleged predecessor, the defendant Malden and Melrose Railroad Company. The material portions of the tenth paragraph of the amended bill, referred to in the opinion, were as follows : “ The plaintiff therefore says that the West End Street Railway Company will, in view of all the premises aforesaid, be assumed to have consolidated, in law as well as in fact, with the Malden and…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This report brings before us questions founded on the plaintiff’s exceptions to the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth findings of the master in his original report, in connection with the pleadings and other facts in the case. The plaintiff contends that the defendant, the West End Street Railway Company, hereinafter called the West End Company, has become liable to pay the judgments held by the plaintiff against the Malden and Melrose Street Railroad Company, hereinafter called the Malden and Melrose Company, because of. an alleged union and merger of these two *303corporations. The…
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