Johnson v. Lehigh Valley Traction Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
In Equity. On petition against receivers to enforce forfeiture of lease.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
This was an application made by Clarence A. Wolle and other stockholders of the Bethlehem & Nazareth Passenger Railway Company, whose road had been leased by the Lehigh Valley Traction Company, asking the court to make an order requiring the receivers of the traction company “to show cause why they should not be held to have defaulted in the lease with the Bethlehem & Nazareth Passenger Railway Company in not paying the dividends of two and one-half per cent, on the capital stock of $150,000 of the said the Bethlehem & Nazareth Passenger Railway Company, and…
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