New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad v. Lea

This suit is brought to recover from the defendant the sum of §1000, amount of his subscription to forty shares of the capital stock of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad Company.

The action is resisted by the defendant on several grounds, one of which is that the plaintiff, although bearing the same name, is not the same company to whose capital stock he subscribed, but a company since created by a Legislative Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the New Orleans, Jackson and' Great Northern Railroad Company,” into which the former was merged, and the terms, conditions and…