Boston & New York Air Line Railroad v. Coffin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for the conveyance of certain lands and for the foreclosure of a mortgage; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The defendants were O. V. Coffin, Allyn M. Colegrove, Lucia C. Birdsey, Sarah H. Colegrove and Allyn M. Colegrove, administrator of the estate of Elihu H. Birdsey. Facts found and case reserved for advice. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
The principal question in this case is, whether the mortgage of the New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad Company to the treasurer of the state, made on the Blst of May, 1869, to secure the bonds of the company to the amount of $3,000,000, included such portion of the lands in question as were not necessary or convenient for railroad purposes.
The property mortgaged is thus described in the mortgage deed:—“All and singular the railroad of the said party of the first part, from the city of New Haven to the village of Willimantic, in the state of Connecticut, as the same is now or may be…
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