Attorney General v. Boston & Albany Railroad

By St. 1869, c. 174, the Athol and Enfield Railroad Company was chartered and authorized to locate, construct and operate a railroad from the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad in Athol to connect with the New London Northern Railroad at Belchertown or Palmer, and by subsequent statutes to extend its railroad from the terminus in Belchertown through the towns of Ludlow and Wilbraham to the Boston and Albany Railroad, or the Connecticut River Railroad in Springfield. The St. 1873, c. 16, permitted the corporation to change its name to the Springfield, Athol and Northeastern Railroad Company,…