U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts February 23, 1882 (Crane v. Waters)

Lowell, C. J.

For the purpose of deciding this demurrer it must be assumed that the plaintiff had conceived and begun to carry out a plan for making a railroad from Boston to New York by the consolidation of certain shorter lines, and otherwise, and that it was a part of his plan to obtain control of the New York & New England Company by electing directors favorable to his scheme; that the