Bates v. Boston & New York Central Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity filed August 1st 1861, and alleging, amongst other things, that on the 13th of March 1852 the Norfolk County Railroad Company, a corporation which then owned certain real and personal property, being indebted to the plaintiffs, executed and delivered to them certain bonds, a copy of one of which was annexed, similar in form, and under the seal of the corporation, payable January 1st 1854, which constituted valid obligations in favor of the plaintiffs against…
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Bill in equity filed August 1st 1861, and alleging, amongst other things, that on the 13th of March 1852 the Norfolk County Railroad Company, a corporation which then owned certain real and personal property, being indebted to the plaintiffs, executed and delivered to them certain bonds, a copy of one of which was annexed, similar in form, and under the seal of the corporation, payable January 1st 1854, which constituted valid obligations in favor of the plaintiffs against the corporation; that the plaintiffs are still the holders thereof; that afterwards, under the authority of different…
1Opinion of the CourtDewey, J.
The plaintiffs seek by means of this bill, to enforce payment of certain certificates of indebtedness given to them by the Norfolk County Railroad Company. As the foundation of the bill, t becomes necessary to establish the fact of a present existing indebtedness to them on the part of tho* *253company. This they attempt to do by the production of cer tain instruments bearing date January 13th 1852, and signed by the treasurer and the president of the company, acknowledging such indebtedness, and promising to pay the same with interest semi-annually, on the first day of January 1854, the form of…
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