People v. . O'Brien
New York Court of Appeals
These are cross appeals from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made at the October Term, 1887, which affirmed a judgment entered upon a decision of the court on trial at General Term.
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These are cross appeals from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made at the October Term, 1887, which affirmed a judgment entered upon a decision of the court on trial at General Term. This action was brought by the attorney-general, in the name of the People, against John O’Brien, as Receiver of the Broadway Surface Railroad Company; the Mayor, etc., of the city of Rew York; the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company; the Twenty-third Street Railway Company; William H. Hayes, Francis A. Palmer, as trustees under…
1Opinion of the Court
Buger, Ch. J.
It will not be unprofitable at the outset, to ■recall some of the prominent incidents attending the origin and operation of the Broadway Surface Bailroad Company, for the purpose of obtaining a clearer view of the situation ■of the parties, and their relation to the subject of the action.
On Hay 13, 1884, that company filed articles of association and became incorporated as a street railroad company under the provisions of chapter 252 of the Laws of 1884, a general act passed to authorize the formation of such corporations, pursuant to the mode introduced by the amendment to the…
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