Pond v. Vermont Val. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont
[This was a bill in equity by Charles M. Pond and others, survivors of William P. Burrall, against the Vermont Valley Railroad Company and others, to restrain the execution of a lease.]
1Opinion of the Court
WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.
The bill of complaint herein was filed by William P. Burrall (now lately deceased) and the other complainants, citizens and residents of the state of Connecticut, as stockholders in the Vermont Valley Railroad Company, a corporation created and organized by or under the law's of the state of Vermont The bill seeks to restrain the execution of a lease of the railroad of the said corporation for twenty years from the 1st of June, 1875, to the Rutland Railroad Company, (also a defendant), and to cancel such lease, if any have been executed (as is claimed and pretended) by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wickwire v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1849
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