Mount Holly Paper Company's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Arpead from the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, of Philadelphia county: In Equity: Of January Term 1882, No. 53. Appeal of the Mount Holly Paper Company from a decree of said court, sustaining the exceptions of the West Philadelphia Passenger Bailway Company, to the report of the Master in the matter of a cross bill filed by tlie said railway company, in a cause wherein Sarah Swain, and William M. Baugh, were complainants, and the said West Philadelphia Passenger Railway…
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Arpead from the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, of Philadelphia county: In Equity: Of January Term 1882, No. 53. Appeal of the Mount Holly Paper Company from a decree of said court, sustaining the exceptions of the West Philadelphia Passenger Bailway Company, to the report of the Master in the matter of a cross bill filed by tlie said railway company, in a cause wherein Sarah Swain, and William M. Baugh, were complainants, and the said West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company, its officers and directors, and others, were defendants. The original bill in equity set forth, inter alia, that by a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shabswood
The Act of Assembly passed February 19th 1849, entitled “ an Act regulating railroad companies,” Pamph. L. 79, provides “ that' whenever a special Act of the General Assembly shall hereafter he passed, authorizing the incorporation of a company for the construction of a railroad within this Commonwealth,” such company shall be subject to the regulations contained in that Act. By the seventh section, after enacting that certificates of stock shall be issued, “ which certificates of stock shall be transferrable at the pleasure of the holder, in a suitable book or books to be kept by the company…
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