Hawkins Co. v. East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad

This bill is filed for the purpose of enforcing the terms and stipulations contained in a decree made by the chancery court at Nashville, Tennessee, in a proceeding against certain delinquent railroads, ámong which was the Rogersville and Jefferson road. It appears from the allegations of the bill now before us, that Hawldns county, as a large stockholder in said road, was a party to the proceedings on the part of the state seeking to sell the road by virtue of its lien and to indemnify the state for its liabilities incurred in building the same; that said county was prepared by her counsel…