Farwell v. Great Western Telegraph Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lorin C. Collins, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
Charles B. Farwell, and four other stockholders in the corporation known as the Great Western Telegraph Company, on the third day of October, 1888, filed in the circuit court of Cook county a bill in chancery, in behalf of themselves and all other stockholders in said company who would come in and contribute to the expenses of the suit, against the Great Western Telegraph Company, Selah Reeve, David A. Gage, Josiah Snow, Jeremiah M. Terwilliger, Judson M. W. Jones, Thomas J. Sutherland, Adelaide K. Sutherland, George F. Harding, John Clark Hilton, Franklin D. Gray, John J. McClellan and Edwin…
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