Maine Shore Line Railroad v. Maine Central Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions and Report. This was an action at law brought by the Maine Shore Line Railroad Company against the Maine Central Railroad Company to recover damages in the sum of $300,000 for violation of an alleged contract, relating to the construction of the Maine Shore Line Railroad from a point in connection with the Maine Central Railroad in the town of Hancock to the water front in the town of Eastport, now the city of Eastport.
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On Exceptions and Report. This was an action at law brought by the Maine Shore Line Railroad Company against the Maine Central Railroad Company to recover damages in the sum of $300,000 for violation of an alleged contract, relating to the construction of the Maine Shore Line Railroad from a point in connection with the Maine Central Railroad in the town of Hancock to the water front in the town of Eastport, now the city of Eastport. At the January term, 1898, at which the action was assigned for trial, the plaintiff moved to be allowed to make two amendments to the declaration in its writ;…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
Did the charter of plaintiff corporation expire by limitation after this action had been commenced, so as to abate the same?
The Maine Shore Line Railroad Company was chartered by the legislature of Maine, Act of 1881, c. 91, and authorized to construct a railroad from Calais to Ellsworth with a branch to East-port, and to consolidate with any connecting railroad, and, if upon completion of the railroad before named, there had not been constructed a standard gauge railroad from Ellsworth to Bangor, it might construct one. The act also provided that the charter should *481become void unless the…
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