Bartholomew v. Farwell
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bills in Equity, to compel a conveyance of real estate ; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, the two cases involving the same general facts, and being heard together. The petitioners were receivers of the Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad Company, an insolvent corporation. The facts were found by a committee, against the acceptance of whose report the respondents remonstrated.
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Bills in Equity, to compel a conveyance of real estate ; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, the two cases involving the same general facts, and being heard together. The petitioners were receivers of the Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad Company, an insolvent corporation. The facts were found by a committee, against the acceptance of whose report the respondents remonstrated. The court (Pardee, •J’.,) accepted the report and passed decrees in favor of the petitioners, and the respondents brought the cases before this court by motions in error. The points decided by the court…
1Opinion of the CourtPhelps, J.
These cases were heard together in the argument, and the question which a majority of the court regard as decisive of them is common to and disposes of both.
The petitioners are receivers of the Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad Company, and in a bill in chancery asking for an injunction and a decree to compel the respondents to convey to them certain land described in the bill, for the purpose of proving that the land was purchased by the respondent Farwell for the benefit of the corporation and paid for by it, offered in evidence in a hearing before a committee the books of account of the…
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