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HANCOCK v. LOUISVILLE RAILROAD CO.

Nos. 325, 326.

145 U.S. 409 (1892)

12 S.Ct. 969

36 L.Ed. 755

HANCOCK, v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY. SHELBY RAILROAD COMPANY, v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 16, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. B.F. Buckner for appellant. Mr. T.L. Burnett and Mr. John L. Dodd were with him on the brief.

Mr. J.C. Beckham for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

These two cases were argued together, the object of attack in each being the same, to wit, a lease made by the Shelby Railroad Company, on July 16, 1879, to the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway Company, and subsequently transferred by the latter to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. Each seeks the same relief, the cancellation of that lease. Hancock, the appellant in one case, was a stockholder...

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