State v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County, in Equity. On the 31st of December, 1889, George S.' Brown, Charles M. Mathews, John S. Gittings, Frederick M. Colston, and.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County, in Equity. On the 31st of December, 1889, George S.' Brown, Charles M. Mathews, John S. Gittings, Frederick M. Colston, and. Bradley S. Johnson, trustees of the holders of the Preferred Construction Bonds of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company, issued under the Act of 1844, ch. 281, filed their bill in the Court b'elow against the canal company, alleging the utter insolvency of the company; its long-continued failure to pay the coupons on their bonds; the maturity and non-payment of the principal of the bonds; its entire loss of credit, and…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
Before proceeding to consider the several questions, which have heen argued with so much ability in this case, it is necessary to refer briefly to certain facts connected with the history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, out of which this litigation has arisen, and to refer also to the successive steps which have heen taken in the progress of the suit, from the filing of the •original bill down to the final decree, from which this appeal was taken.
This company was chartered as far hack as 1824, for the purpose of uniting the waters of the Ohio River with the waters of the Chesapeake…
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