City of Chicago v. Cameron
Appellate Court of Illinois
In ebeob to the Circuit Court of La Salle County; the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. Statement by Welch, J. The La Salle and Chicago Railroad Company was organized under an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the La Salle and Chicago Railroad Company,” approved February 28,1867, for the construction of a railroad from La Salle to Chicago. In 1872 the name of the corporation was by a vote of its stockholders changed to the Chicago and Great Westera.
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In ebeob to the Circuit Court of La Salle County; the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. Statement by Welch, J. The La Salle and Chicago Railroad Company was organized under an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the La Salle and Chicago Railroad Company,” approved February 28,1867, for the construction of a railroad from La Salle to Chicago. In 1872 the name of the corporation was by a vote of its stockholders changed to the Chicago and Great Westera. Railroad Company. On the first of March, 1873, the directors of the company by resolution authorized the issue of bonds to the…
1Opinion of the CourtWelch, J.
The first question presented for our consideration by the assignment of errors is, that “ The court erred in not finding that there was an adequate remedy at law, and in not dismissing the bill for want of jurisdiction.”
The instruments sought to he canceled and released by the-' bill in this case were regular upon their face, and their invalidity depended solely upon extrinsic evidence. In such a case, as said by McAllister, J., in Field v. Herrick, 5 Ill. App. 54, " Although the question whether equity would take jurisdiction to decree the delivering up of written instruments void •upon…
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