Callanan v. Keeseville, Ausable Chasm, Lake Champlain Railroad

Kellogg, John M., J.

The executors of Nathaniel B. Powers, a deceased defendant, seek to be made parties defendant in his place, claiming an absolute right to intervene under section 452 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The action is to set aside a contract between the railroad company and Joseph A. Powers and Walter H. Mansfield, and to cancel stock and bonds claimed to have been illegally issued by them while controlling the company, and, if the stock and bonds have been transferred so that they cannot be reached, to recover the value thereof from the defendants who collusively disposed of…