Hill v. Glasgow R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky
In Equity. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the CourtJackson, J.
The complainant, as a stockholder in the Glasgow Railroad Company,' brings this suit to restrain the directors of said company from the misappropriation of the funds of said corporation. The case made by the bill is substantially this:
The Glasgow Railroad Company was chartered by the legislature of Kentucky by an act approved March 6, 1868, and was empowered to purchase the franchises and unfinished line of road in Barren county belonging to the Barren County Railroad Company, which had been previously chartered in 1856. This purchase was made, and the former company became vested with the…
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