St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute Railroad v. Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TH-E UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOI? This was a bill in equity, filed July 6,1887, by the St. Louis, Yandalia and Terre Haute Railroad Company, a corporation of Illinois, against the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company, a corporation of Indiana, to set aside and cancel a conveyance of the plaintiff’s railroad and franchises to the defendant for a term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years. ,The bill contained the…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TH-E UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOI? This was a bill in equity, filed July 6,1887, by the St. Louis, Yandalia and Terre Haute Railroad Company, a corporation of Illinois, against the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company, a corporation of Indiana, to set aside and cancel a conveyance of the plaintiff’s railroad and franchises to the defendant for a term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years. ,The bill contained the following allegations : That the plaintiff was incorporated by a statute of Illinois of February 10, 1865, amended by a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The object of this' suit between two raSroad corporations, as stated in the amended bill, is tb have a contract, by which the plaintiff transferred its railroad and equipment, as well as ' its franchise to maintain and operate the road, to the defendant for a term - of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, set .aside and cancelled, as beyond the corporate powers of one or both of the parties.
The contract, dated February 10, 1868, recites that the plaintiff is a corporation of Illinois, and the defendant a corporation of Indiana; that their railroads connect at the line between the two States;…
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