RAILROAD CO. v. FALCONER


103 U.S. 821 (____)

RAILROAD COMPANY v. FALCONER. RAILROAD COMPANY v. WEEKS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Richard T. Merrick, for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Richard P. Marvin and Mr. Clarkson N. Potter, contra.


MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The first of these cases was a petition filed by certain tax-payers of the town of Ellicott, in Chatauque County, New York, on behalf of themselves and others, against the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad Company and Weeks, Breed, and Jones, commissioners to issue bonds for the town, seeking to restrain the issue and delivery of certain town bonds to the railroad company and to prevent a subscription to its capital...

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