RELATING TO

RAILWAY, CANAL, AND JOINT
STOCK COMPANIES,

ARGUED AND ADJUDGED IN THE

Courts of Law and Equity;

1850 TO 1854.

BY

LIONEL OLIVER, EDWARD BEAVAN, & THOMAS E. P. LEFROY, .
ESQUIRES, BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

VOL. VII.

THECA

LONDON:

W. MAXWELL, 32, BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN,

Law Bookseller and Publisher;

AND HOT JES & SMITH, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

AT THE DATE OF THE DECISIONS REPORTED IN THIS VOLUME.

ERRATA.

Page 221, 4 lines from bottom, for confirmed, read conferred.

366, last line, for and of all read and all.

403, 8 lines from bottom, for "Lands," read "Railways" Clauses Consolida

tion Act.

A TABLE

OF THE

NAMES OF THE CASES REPORTED

IN THIS VOLUME.

The Cases in Chancery are distinguished by the letters Ch.

Blackwall R. Co., Letts v. Ch. 987 Dawes, Brettell v.