Kansas & Eastern Railroad Construction Co. v. Topeka, Salina & Western Railroad

This is a bill in equity, brought by a construction company, organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and William H. Rollins of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, against a railroad corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kansas for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad therein, and against Charles G. Patterson, of Boston in this Commonwealth, and Weston Arnold, of Council Grove, Kansas. The case comes before us on an appeal by the plaintiffs from a decree, made by a single justice of this court, *35sustaining demurrers filed by the several defendants, and…