Rogers v. Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. This is a bill filed by a stockholder of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company, in behalf of himself and all other stockholders in said railway company who may desire to become parties complainant thereto, against the Nashville, Chattanooga. & St. Lonis Railway Company and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. This is a bill filed by a stockholder of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company, in behalf of himself and all other stockholders in said railway company who may desire to become parties complainant thereto, against the Nashville, Chattanooga. & St. Lonis Railway Company and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The object of the bill is to obtain the cancellation of a lease entered into between the two corporations, whereby the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company leased to 1he…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
The relief sought is the cancellation of the lease entered into between the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. This relief is asked upon several grounds: First, because the contract was fraudulently imposed upon the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company through its controlling influence as a majority shareholder; second, because the contract is ultra vires, one or both companies; and, third, because, if neither void as ultra vires, nor voidable for fraud, it is such a…
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