Herring v. New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad

The defendants hay e separately demurred to the plaintiff’s complaint and have urged several grounds of demurrer. But from an examination of the complaint I do not think it necessary to go beyond the principal ground assigned, which is, that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The proper disposition of that question requires that I should state, with some detail, much of the pleading to which objection is made.

The plaintiff is the owner, of thirty-six bonds, of the nominal value of $500 each, issued by the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company,…