Venner v. Chicago City Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles A. McDonald, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Dunn
The appellant, as a stockholder of the Chicago City Railway Company, filed a bill and a supplemental bill in the superior court of Cook county, in behalf of himself and all other stockholders similarly situated, for the purpose of having declared illegal and void a certain agreement creating a trust known as the Chicago City and Connecting Railways Collateral Trust, of enjoining the transfer, holding or voting by the trustees of said trust of any shares of stock in the Chicago City Railway Company or the performance of any other act in pursuance of the said agreement; of enjoining the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Guernsey v. CookMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Smith v. San Francisco & North Pacific Railway Co.California Supreme Court · 1897
- Higgins v. LansinghIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
- Brightman v. BatesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
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