Hancock v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

These two cases were argued together, the object of attack in each being the same, to wit, a lease, made by the 'Shelby Railroad Company, on July 16, 1879, to the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway Company, and subsequently transferred by the latter to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. Each seeks the same relief, the cancellation of that lease. Hancock, the appellant in one case, was a stockholder in the Shelby Railroad Company, the appellant in the other, and. sues for the benefit of that company, the allegations of his bill being intended to bring the case within the…