New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad v. Town of Chatham
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for a mandamus, to compel the respondent town to guarantee certain bonds executed by the petitioners; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The petitioners made the application in the name of the State as Well as in their own. The court issued an alternative mandamus, to which the respondents made return. The facts, which were found by a committee, were the same with those stated in the report of the case of Douglas v. Town of Chatham, 41 Conn.
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Application for a mandamus, to compel the respondent town to guarantee certain bonds executed by the petitioners; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The petitioners made the application in the name of the State as Well as in their own. The court issued an alternative mandamus, to which the respondents made return. The facts, which were found by a committee, were the same with those stated in the report of the case of Douglas v. Town of Chatham, 41 Conn. R., 211, with the following in addition. The vote of the town of Chatham of October 14th, 1871, stated in the report of the…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad Company, the petitioner of record, was incorporated by the legislature in 1867, with power to construct and operate a railroad extending from the city of New Haven to the village of Willimantic, the line of its location passing through Middlefield, Middletown, Portland, Chatham and Hebron. Chatham, the respondent in this proceeding, being thus interested in the construction of the railroad, was authorized by the legislature in 1868 to loan its credit to the corporation by the issue of its bonds to an amount. not exceeding five per cent, of its…
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