Pearsall v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This was a bill in equity filed by Pearsall, a stockholder in the Great Northern Railway, against the company, which is a corporation created and existing under the laws of the Territory and State of Minnesota, and a citizen of that State, to enjoin it from entering into and carrying out a certain agreemént between that company and the holders of bonds secured by the second and third general…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This was a bill in equity filed by Pearsall, a stockholder in the Great Northern Railway, against the company, which is a corporation created and existing under the laws of the Territory and State of Minnesota, and a citizen of that State, to enjoin it from entering into and carrying out a certain agreemént between that company and the holders of bonds secured by the second and third general mortgages, and the consolidated mortgage of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, under which, upon a sale and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case turns upon the question whether the right given, ’by its charter to the Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railroad Company to connect with any railroad running in the same general direction, and, by. a subsequent amendatory act, to consolidate its capital stock, or its property, road or franchise with those of-any other railroad, could be taken away by a subsequent-act inhibiting the consolidation, lease or purchase by any railroad of the stock, property or franchise of any parallel or competing line. A different question would have been presented, if any such contract had been made and…
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