Harrison v. Annapolis & Elk Ridge Railroad
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Cross-Appeals from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in Equity. The facts of this case are stated in the opinion of the Court. After the order of the Court below (Hammond and Hayden, J.,) had been passed, dissolving the injunction in part and continuing it in part, Arthur George Brown, by order of Court, was made a party complainant in the cause, as trustee in the stead of, and as successor to Frederick W. Bruñe, trustee, deceased.
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Cross-Appeals from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in Equity. The facts of this case are stated in the opinion of the Court. After the order of the Court below (Hammond and Hayden, J.,) had been passed, dissolving the injunction in part and continuing it in part, Arthur George Brown, by order of Court, was made a party complainant in the cause, as trustee in the stead of, and as successor to Frederick W. Bruñe, trustee, deceased. The so-called deed of trust was illegally ordered to be executed, and the bonds were illegally directed to be issued, because there was no duly organized…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, J.
The Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad Company, on the 20th June, 1872, made and executed a deed, to William G-. Harrison and Frederick W. Bruñe, of the City of Baltimore, reciting substantially as follows:
Whereas, the party of the first part, under an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed on the 21st of March, 1837, has constructed, and is now engaged in operating a railroad from the City of Annapolis to the Annapolis Junction, on the Washington Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in this State, etc., and by an Act amending said charter, authorizing the said company to extend…
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