Legal Opinion

Redfield v. Baltimore & O. R. Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York

Decided July 29, 1903No. Nos. 24, 25PublishedCited by 6 opinions

In Equity. On demurrers to bills.

1Opinion of the Court

PLATT, District Judge.

In No. 24 the substantial allegations are these: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, having in 1883 acquired 51 per cent, of the capital stock of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Company in return for its guaranty of the latter company’s bonds, in 1898, with ulterior motives, defaulted on its own guaranty, and likewise caused the Staten Island Company to default in the payment of the interest upon its bonds, although earned; that it thereupon, in furtherance of its design to acquire an undivided title to the property of the Staten Island Company, entered into an…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Dodge v. WoolseySupreme Court of the United States · 1856
  2. Greenwood v. Freight Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1882
  3. Bank of Kentucky v. Adams Express Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
  4. Davenport v. DowsSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
  5. Continental Insurance v. RhoadsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Groel v. United Electric Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey · 1904
  2. Egyptian Novaculite Co. v. StevensonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1925
  3. Lawrence v. Southern Pac. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York · 1910
  4. Ralph D. Swanson, Marie A. Swanson, and Janet C. Sheaff, Roy E. Crummer, Intervening v. Glenn W. TraerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1956
  5. Bogert v. Southern Pac. Co.District Court, E.D. New York · 1914

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