Pennsylvania & New England R. R. v. Ryerson

The Chancellor.

The demurrer states two grounds — want of necessary parties and want of equity. The bill is for specific performance of an oral agreement made, as alleged by the complainants, with one Samuel E. Lewis, for the sale and conveyance to him of a farm in Sussex county. The bill states that the complainant had located its railroad over land of William Ryerson; that it became necessary for it to have not only a right of way over that land, but also part of an adjoining tract owned also by him, for its use for a depot and other necessary purposes in connection with the construction and…