Legal Opinion
Flagg v. Manhattan Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided December 21, 1881PublishedCited by 9 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the CourtBlatchi’obd, C. J.
This suit is brought by three persons as individuals and two persons as copartners, who claim to be owners of shares of the capital stock of the Metropolitan Elevated Railway Company, 155, 10, 150, and 75 in number, of the par value of $100 each, there being 65,000 shares in all. The three companies defendants are railroad corporations organized under the laws of the state of New York, and will be called the Manhattan, the Metropolitan, and the Now York. The first company had no lines of railway. The second and third companies had elevated railways in the city of New York. On the twentieth of…
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