Platt v. New York & Boston Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition by George C. Platt to the court of probate of the district of Middletown, for the appointment of a trustee of the estate of the New York and Boston Railroad Company as an insolvent estate, brought before the superior court by appeal.
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This was a petition by George C. Platt to the court of probate of the district of Middletown, for the appointment of a trustee of the estate of the New York and Boston Railroad Company as an insolvent estate, brought before the superior court by appeal. The petition to the probate court described the respondents as “ the New York and Boston Railroad Company, a corporation duly established and organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut ”—“ having its office in Middle-town in said probate district,” and set forth an indebtedness of that corporation to the petitioner by a judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, C. J.
In disposing of this case, we shall confine ourselves strictly to the questions which are presented on the record, without undertaking to decide several others which have been argued before us, but which we think are not now regularly presented. Pursuing this course, we shall not consider the questions made, as to the effect of the supposed consolidation or union of the three original corporations, chartered respectively by the states of Connecticut, Rhode *568Island, and Massachusetts; questions which the parties appear to be especially desirous that we shall determine, but which, as they are…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Evarts v. Killingworth Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1850
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