French v. Shoemaker
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia; the ease was thus: In the year 1854 the legislature of Virginia passed an act to incorporate the Washington and, Alexandria Railroad Company. Two persons, J. S. French and Walter Lenox, subscribed for the whole stock; French taking three-fourths and Lenox one-fourth, and French being made president of the company. The road was built.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia; the ease was thus: In the year 1854 the legislature of Virginia passed an act to incorporate the Washington and, Alexandria Railroad Company. Two persons, J. S. French and Walter Lenox, subscribed for the whole stock; French taking three-fourths and Lenox one-fourth, and French being made president of the company. The road was built. French and Lenox, however, .spent very little money of their own in its. construction, but raised large sums by borrowing. When, therefore, the road was built the company was seriously,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Complicated as the transactions are out of which the present controversy has arisen, it will be impossible to explain the grounds of our decision in a manner which will be satisfactory to the parties, without giving in the first place a pretty full statement of the facts.
On the twenty-seventh of February, 1854, the legislature of Virginia passed an act incorporating a. company to construct a railroad between Alexandria and Washington, by the name of the Alexandria and Washington Railroad Company, and the record shows that three-fourths of the stock of the company was taken by James S, French,…
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