Stanton v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
New York Supreme Court
On demurrer. This action is brought by John B. Stanton against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the Fort Scott, Wichita & Western Railway Company, the Union Trust Company of Hew York, Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Amos L. Hopkins, Russell Harding, Joseph H. Richards, and H. C. Hadley, John F. Dillon, and George Gould, as trustees.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The defendants the Fort Scott, Wichita & Western Railway Company, (herein called for convenience the Fort Scott Company,) Russell Sage, Amos L. Hopkins, and Jay Gould join in the demurrer to the complaint in this action. The defendants John F. Dillon and Jay Gould, as trustees, and George J. Gould, individually, join in the demurrer to the complaint. These demurrers are substantially identical in form and language. The grounds of the demurrer are: First, that the causes of action have been improperly united in the complaint; second, that the complaint upon the face thereof; does not state…
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