Coler v. Tacoma Railway & Power Co.
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On application for preliminary injunction, heard on bill and affidavits and answer and affidavits.
1Opinion of the Court
Emery, Y. C.
The substantial situation on this application is this: Two-corporations, owning two separate electric street railways in the State of Washington, propose to combine tlieir properties and to capitalize the combined roads at an amount equal to the present capitalization of the two roads. One of the systems is operated entirely within the city of Tacoma, and the company owning and operating this road is a New Jersey corporation, the corporate defendant the Tacoma Railway and -Power Company. The other company has constructed, or nearly constructed, a railroad between the cities of…
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