Lookout Mountain Railroad v. Houston

This is a hill filed originally by the Lookout Mountain Railroad Company against R. G. Houston & Co. and others, but amended so as to. make the “others” complainants. The bill alleges that the complainant, the Lookout Mountain Company, was a corporation authorized to build and *225operate a railroad between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Rome, G-a.; that on the 2d March, 1880, it had entered into a written contract with J. C. Stanton & Co., a firm of railroad contractors, for the building of said road, and the contract is in writing, and exhibited with the bill, showing, among other things, that Stanton…