Packer v. Sunbury & Erie Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a bill in Chancery, filed in the Supreme Court when sitting at Harrisburg, in June 1852. The case was heard at Sun-bury in July 1852. It was a bill filed at .the instance of William F. Packer, as President, and Simon Cameron, George F. Miller, and others, Directors of The Susquehanna Railroad Company, v. The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company.
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This was a bill in Chancery, filed in the Supreme Court when sitting at Harrisburg, in June 1852. The case was heard at Sun-bury in July 1852. It was a bill filed at .the instance of William F. Packer, as President, and Simon Cameron, George F. Miller, and others, Directors of The Susquehanna Railroad Company, v. The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company. It was alleged in the bill that the complainants were stockholders and proprietors of shares in the Susquehanna Railroad Company. That the said Company was incorporated under an Act of Assembly approved on the 14th April, 1851, with authority to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
The bill in this cause sets forth that the plaintiffs are stockholders in the Susquehanna Railroad Company, which was incorporated by an act of-the Legislature, passed 14th of April, 1851, and authorized to construct a road from Sunbury to Harrisburg or Bridgeport, with a provision that unless the work should be commenced within three years from the date of the act, <-he charter should be void; that in pursuance of this act of incor*215poration large subscriptions have been made to the capital stock of the Company, letters patent have been…
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