Mills v. Central Railroad

The Chancellor.

This suit is brought by Alfred Mills and John H. Lidgerwood, executors of the will of Stephen Vail, deceased, against the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, and the persons who, at the time of filing the bill (August 29th, 1883), were the directors of the *3latter company. The object of it is to annul a* lease made May 29 th, 1883, by the Central to the Reading, by which the former demised to the latter for the term of'nine hundred and ninety-nine years,''its railroads and works and all their appendages and appurtenances, and…