Hager v. Thomson
Supreme Court of the United States
John D. Hager brought his bill in the Circuit Court for the district of New Jersey against John R. Thomson, Edwin-A. Stevens, James Neilson, and the said John R. Thomson, Edwin A. Stevens, James Neilson, Robert P. Stockton and Richard Stockton, trustees of the New Brunswick Steamboat and Canal Transportation Company.
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John D. Hager brought his bill in the Circuit Court for the district of New Jersey against John R. Thomson, Edwin-A. Stevens, James Neilson, and the said John R. Thomson, Edwin A. Stevens, James Neilson, Robert P. Stockton and Richard Stockton, trustees of the New Brunswick Steamboat and Canal Transportation Company. The material averments of the bill are substantially as' follqws: The complainant was the owner of seven. and two-thirds shares of the capital stock of the New Brunswick -Steamboat and Canal Transportation Company, .a corporation of the State of New Jersey, created by law in-…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This was a bill in equity, and the case comes before the court on appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of New Jersey, dismissing the bill of complaint. It was filed on the eighteenth day of May, Í852, and was brought by the appellant.
Some brief reference to the introductory allegations of the bill of complaint, and to the transactions out of which the con troversy has arisen, is indispensable, in order that the founda tion of the claim made by the complainant may be fully understood.
It appears that the New Brunswick Steamboat and Canal Transportation…
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