MacArdell v. Olcott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Warren S. Sillcocks, a stockholder of the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, from an • order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 22d day of April, 1901, denying his motion to be made a party plaintiff and to serve a supplemental complaint setting forth such joinder.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This action was commenced on the 20th day of August, 1891, by Cornelius MacArdell, a stockholder of the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, in behalf of himself and all other stockholders of said company similarly situated, who might come in and contribute to the expense thereof. The purpose of the action, *128briefly, stated, is to obtain a decree that large tracts of land in the State of Texas purchased by defendants Olcott and Downs, respectively, on the foreclosure of mortgages executed by said railway company^ be deemed held by them in trust for said company and that they…
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