Bradley v. Richardson
United States District Court
This was a motion for an injunction, predicated upon a bill filed by Bradley and others against Richardson and others, to stay execution of two judgments, amounting together to the sum of $51,992,-04, recovered by Richardson and others, at the October term of the Circuit Court, 1851, against the Burlington Mill Company, a corporation established, under an act of the legislature of Vermont, for the manufacture and sale of woolen goods.
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This was a motion for an injunction, predicated upon a bill filed by Bradley and others against Richardson and others, to stay execution of two judgments, amounting together to the sum of $51,992,-04, recovered by Richardson and others, at the October term of the Circuit Court, 1851, against the Burlington Mill Company, a corporation established, under an act of the legislature of Vermont, for the manufacture and sale of woolen goods. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion given on the decision of the motion.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentiss, J.
I have taken time to read the bill and papers filed in this case, which are uncommonly voluminous and contain a great variety of statements and facts, because I thought it unfit, and was unwilling, whatever might be the inclination of my mind at the hearing, to decide a matter of so much importance to the parties, without first examining carefully every paper connected with it, as well as the authorities referred to by the counsel in the argument.
The bill may be considered in a three fpld aspect; — as presenting a right in the plaintiffs to relief, first, as stockholders in the Burlington…
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