Central National Bank v. Stevens
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Lebanon Springs Railroad Company was organized in the year 1852, and, by virtue of various acts of the legislatures of, New- York and Vermont, was authorized to construct and maintain a railroad extending from Chatham, New York, to Bennington, Vermont.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Lebanon Springs Railroad Company was organized in the year 1852, and, by virtue of various acts of the legislatures of, New- York and Vermont, was authorized to construct and maintain a railroad extending from Chatham, New York, to Bennington, Vermont. On the 1st day of July, 1S67, the said company duly executed and delivered to the Union Trust Company of New York a mortgage of that date on all its property, rights and franchises, to secure the payment of bonds to the amount of two million of dollars, which bonds were then or soon…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice- Shieas,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs in error ask us to reverse the decree of the Court of Appeals, affirming that of the Supreme Court of New York, because the action of Stevens and others as a bill of review, or a bill in the nature of- a bill of review, was not brought within the time limited by the practice of the courts for entertaining such bills; that, under the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of New York, bills- for review have no place for errors appearing upon the face of the record; that the only remedy for such errors…
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