Vermont & Canada Railroad v. Vermont Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
[ In Chancery. ] Appeal from the Court of Chancery. In December, 1876, a petition was filed in this cause by the Central Vermont Railroad Company as receiver and manager of the Vermont Central and the Vermont & Canada Railroads, by various individuals who were alleged to be the owners respectively of bonds known as the first-equipment, second-equipment, third-equipment, Stanstead-Shefford-and-Chambly, guaranteed, and income-and-extension bonds, and by Thomas H. Perkins, J.…
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[ In Chancery. ] Appeal from the Court of Chancery. In December, 1876, a petition was filed in this cause by the Central Vermont Railroad Company as receiver and manager of the Vermont Central and the Vermont & Canada Railroads, by various individuals who were alleged to be the owners respectively of bonds known as the first-equipment, second-equipment, third-equipment, Stanstead-Shefford-and-Chambly, guaranteed, and income-and-extension bonds, and by Thomas H. Perkins, J. H. Converse, and Estes Howe, represented as a committee acting in behalf of holders of bonds of all of' said several…
1Opinion of the Court
The case was held for consideration till the General Term at Montpelier, in October, 1877, when, on October 80, the opinion of . the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
It is proper to be said, that what I am now to read expresses the opinion of each of the judges constituting the *534court by whom the case was heard as above shown, upon the fullest consideration that each has been able to give to the cause.
This cause has been pending in the Court of Chancery for Franklin County since the mandate of the Supreme Court of January, 1861. The purpose and scope of that mandate are expressed in it. It is…
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