Conine v. J. B. R.R. Co.

THIS was an action of assumpsit by William C. Conine against The Junction and Breakwater Railroad Company in the Superior Court in and for New Castle County, and came up on a case stated and the following facts and the question of law thereupon reserved by consent of counsel, for a hearing before all the Judges in this Court, and was heard before Bates, Chancellor, Gilpin, Chief Justice, and Wootten and Wales, Justices, Houston, Justice, not sitting, being a stockholder, director and the President of the company.

On the second day of July, 1860, the defendant, a corporation of the State,…