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GRAHAM v. BOSTON, HARTFORD & ERIE RR. CO.

118 U.S. 161 (1886)

GRAHAM & Another v. BOSTON, HARTFORD & ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY & Others.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1886.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Fugene M. Johnson and Mr. Benjamin F. Butler (Mr. R.A. Pryor and Mr. C.F. Beach, Jr., were with them), for appellants.

Mr. Charles M. Reed for Healey appellee.

Mr. C.S. Bradley and Mr. J.C. Gray for appellees Bradley, Chapman and Barnard.

Mr. William G. Russell and Mr William Caleb Loring for the New York & New England Railroad Company, and Hart and Clark appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity, filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, on the 8th of July, 1880, by William F. Graham, an alien, the owner of 500 shares of the capital stock of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company, on behalf not only of himself, but of every stockholder and creditor of the company who may join in the suit and contribute to its expense, to set...

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