Legal Opinion
United States v. Morris & Essex R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 7, 1943No. 240PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order, enjoining the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, from making any further payments to the shareholders of the Morris & Essex Railroad Company which fall due as rent under a lease of its railroad to the Lackawanna. The facts which are undisputed are as follows: In 1868 the Morris & Essex leased its property of every kind for the duration of its charter to the Lackawanna, in consideration of a semi-annual direct payment to the lessor’s shareholders of “interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, upon the par value of said…
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