Petty v. Brunswick & Western Railway Co.

On July 1, 1896, the Brunswick & Western Railway Company and certain other corporations constituting what was known as the “Plant System of Railways” entered' into an agreement in writing which, among other things, recited that they had “determined to establish a Relief and Hospital Department, the scope, character, objects and purposes of which” were set forth in a writing thereto attached, embodying the proposed regulations under which such department was to be conducted. Each of these several corporations obligated itself to contribute ratably to a fund of $12,-000 to be used in the…