Argument Of F Carroll Brewster Esq On Behalf Of William B N Cozens Delivered At Philadelphia June 12th 1865 Before A Court Martial Composed Of Maj Gen Abner Doubleday Lt Col J M Thompson Lt Col G W Thompson Lt Col P B Stilson Lt Col Francis S Keese Lt Col G Mallery Capt J H Platt And Col J A Foster Judge Advocate PDF Download

Excerpt from Argument of Hon. F. Carroll Brewster in the Case of Swasey Vs. North Carolina R. R. Co. Before Hon. Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of the United States, and Hon. Hugh L. Bond, Circuit Judge, Raleigh, June 8, 1874: And Opinion of the Chief Justice Lastly, to the propositions Of law upon which my motion rests. The' contract we set up may be stated in a few words. We say that in the year 1849 the State of North Carolina created a Railroad corporation - sub scribed to two millions of the stock - invited loans to pay for this stock, and issued to the persons advancing the money, interest bearing bonds, and that the State pledged for the payment of these bonds and their interest, the stock thus purchased and all its dividends. Those bonds, with heavy arrears of unpaid interest, we this day represent at your bar, and we Simply ask that the stock pledged for these payments - the stock bought with our money - our stock - be sold to satisfy our just demand. She who never paid one dollar for a Single share, She who for years received and misappropriated the dividends, still seeks to hold these millions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.