Zabriskie v. Cleveland, Columbus, & Cincinnati Railroad

The appellant is a stockholder of the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad Company,, a corporation' existing by the law of Ohio, and empowered to construct a railroad from Cleveland south, and having a capital of more than $4,300,000 distributed among above nine hundred stockholders: The appellant complains, that this corporation, in April, 1854, illegally endorsed a guaranty upon four hundred bonds of one thousand dollars each, with interest coupons at the rate of seven per cent, per annum, payable to Elias Eossett or bearer id New York, in 1869, that had been issued in that month by…