Curry v. Scott
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Court, June 12bh 1866, by William O. Curry against William Scott, John Van McCollum, John P. Vincent, John Hearn, John F. Tracy, Milton Courtright and the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad Company.
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This was a bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Court, June 12bh 1866, by William O. Curry against William Scott, John Van McCollum, John P. Vincent, John Hearn, John F. Tracy, Milton Courtright and the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad Company. By an act passed the 1st day of April 1858, John A. Tracy and six others were incorporated as the Erie & Pittsburg Railroad Company, subject to the provisions of the General Railroad Law of February 19th 1849. The capital stock was to consist of 20,000 shares of $50 each, with liberty, by a vote of the stockholders, to increase it to 50,000 shares. Up to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
The objects sought to be attained by the bill are mainly such as are attainable by a writ of quo warranto, and it might perhaps he questioned whether they can be secured in a court of equity. ■ A portion of the relief sought, however, is such as a court of law cannot give, and it is not assigned as one of the grounds of the demurrer that the plaintiff has an adequate remedy *275at law. We proceed, therefore, to inquire whether the hill exhibits a case entitling the plaintiff to relief.
It avers in substance that the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad…
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