Jones v. Concord & Montreal Railroad
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity, for an injunction restraining the defendant corporation and its directors from issuing shares of new capital stock, under authority of a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting holden May 19, 1892, to shareholders, and particularly to shareholders in classes one, two, and three; also for an injunction against carrying out the terms of a lease of the New Boston Railroad Company. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
By an act of the legislature (Laws 1891, c. 3) the Concord & Montreal Railroad was authorized to “increase its capital not exceeding $3,000,000, to be issued from time to time for the purpose of aiding an extension of the Whitefield & Jefferson Railroad, and of such other branches or leased roads of the Concord & Montreal Railroad as it is or may be authorized to construct, and for the purpose of providing additional depots, yards, and other terminal facilities at Nashua, Manchester, Portsmouth, Concord, Laconia, I^ake Village, and elsewhere ón.the lines of its railroad; of providing…
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