The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-05-06
SUPREME COURT.
THE UNION TRUST COMPANY, OF NEW
YORK, AND OTHERS, Defendants,
AARON R. STEVENS, AND OTHERS,

| sell at public auction, at the front door of the
Court House In the City Of Troy on the 18th day
May, 1892 at o'clock in the afternoon, the prem
Uses property, fran hes and powers in said judR-
ment mentioned and therein described as follows
All the franchises and powers conferred upon
| the Lebanon Springs Railroad Company. by the
following acts of the legislature of the State of
| New York. each of which was duly passed upon
the date hereinafter stated that is to say:
| IAN Act to authorize the Lebanon Springs Rail-
| 'roao Company to construct an extension of its
| roads into Massachusetts and Vermont, and to
provide means therefor, passed March Sth 1853,
and being Chapter 25 of the laws OF that year.
can Act to amend an Act entitled AN Act to
authorize the Lebanon Springs Railroad Com
pany to construct an extension of its road into
| Massachusetts and Vermont, and to provide
"means therefor passed March 8th, 1885," passed
June oath. 1853, and being Chapter461 Of the laws
| Of that year;
"An Act to enable certain connecting railroad
companies to aid in the construction Of the Leb-
canon Springs Railroad" passed April 18th 1885,
and being Chapter $50 of the laws OF that year;
| San Act to extend the time for the completion
"of the Lebanon Springs Railroad; passed March
23rd, 1851, and being Chapter $50 of the laws Of
that year;
| "An Act to extend the time for tho completion
| "oi the Lebanon Springs Railroad" passed April
l2th, 1860. and being Chapter 2S5 of the laws of
that year;
AN Act to extend the time for the completion
"oi the Lebanon Springs Railroad" passed april
p. 1852 and being Chapter 444 of the laws of that
year;
IAN Act TO amend the charter of the Lebanon
Springs Railroad Company passed April eth.
1864 and being Chapter 145 Of the laws of that
year;
IAN Act to authorize any town in the counties
| 'of Columbia or Rensselaer, 10 aid in the compile
| "tion of the Lebanon Springs Railroad" passed
April 4th, 1856 and being Chapter 1913 of the laws
| of that year;
IAN Act to extend the time for the completion
"of the Lebanon Springs Railroad" passed Goth
February 1867, and being Chapter 40 of the laws
of that year.
| And all the powers and franchises of railroad
COrDOratiOns stated in An To aOthOriZR
FORMATION of railroad companies, aud to regu-
late the same, passed by the Legislature OF New
York. April 2, 1850, and the several acts amenda-
tory thereof nd supplementary thereto and the
power to purchase, construct and operate the
railroad hereinafter described, extending from
Chatham Four Corners, in the County of Colum
bia, Dortherly through the Counties of Columbia
and Rensselaer, to the borders of the State OF
Vermont, and into that state to the village of
Bennington. and also the certain other special and
particular powers and franchises stated in the
above acts, and also the following powers and
franchises, to wit:
To exercise all the powers and authorities in re
spect to the constructing, holding and operating
the part of said railroad within the state of YER
mont, and the Danaging'of the business thereof,
which might be done if that part were within thu
State of New York
To create preferred stock at such rate of diyi-
dend, or interest, and with such securities there
for as may be deemed expedient.
To extend the road by construction or purchase
into the States of Vermont anG Massachusetts, as
far as is or may be permitted by the authority OF
said States.
To consolidate with any company or companies
having railroad or the right to build railroad,
which 1.-THE Lebanon Springs Railroad Com
pany was authorized to construct or acquire
such terms as the parties should agree upon or
the States of Vermont and Massachusetts should
require; end
10 consolidate either alone or after consolida-
ton with any company into single corporation,
with any company having railroad, or the right
to construct a railroad, which, or portion of
which should be within the State of New York,
and which should connect with the railroad of
the Lebanon Springs Railroad Company at its
terminus, in the same manner as the railroad
companies mentioned in an act entitled" An act to
authorize the consolidation of certain railroad
Companies" passed by the Legislature of New
York. April I'd, 1858.
To exercise all the powers with respect to the
railroads or portions of railroads which might be
constructed or acquired within the States of Ver-
mont and Massachusetts as may be exercised il
the same were wholly within the State Of New
York.
To have corporate stock and bonds tai / and
owned or guaranteed by any company having or
beng authorized to construct a railroad con-
meeting with the lines of railroad of the
said Lebanon Springs Railroad Company, and 10
have any such companys aid by loan of money
credit. and by the raising of means and secur-
ing any contract for such purpose in any m amer
in which the company so aiding might do for the
construction of its own railroad
To change the northern terminus Of the railroad
from the Massachusetts State line declared in
the articles of association of the LebacOn Springs
Railroad ompany o,any point within the town
of Hoosick, in the County of Rensselaer,, the
town of White Creek, in the County of Washing
ton.
To construct branch to a terminus at the
Vermont State line, at point Of junction with the
Western Vermont Railroad. now known as the
Bennington and Rutland Railway.
To construct branch with terminus in either
or both of the cities of Albany and Troy,with the
same effects as If the line had been originally
fixed in the articles ofassOciation both as to the
main line and branches as the same are last above
described, and the termini thereof had been its
original terminus
Also all powers and franchises conferred by the
following acts, which were duly passed by the
Legislature of the State of Vermont, to wit:
can act to incorporate the Vermont and New
York Railroad Company" approved November
End. 1865, and being No. 1874 of the laws of that
year,
corporate the Vermont and New York Railroad
"approved November End, 1885," approved No
vember 18th and and being No. l67 of the laws Of
that year
IAN act authorizing the Bennington and Rut-
Gland Railroad Company to consolidate their road
with the road of the Lebanon Springs Railroad
Company" approved November 2lst, 1867, and
being No 1855 of the laws of that year;
AN act to enable the Bennington and Rutland
"Kailroad Company to aid in obtaining neces-
"sary railroad connections, approved March 18th,
1857, and being No. of tie Special Sessions OF
that year;
And the powers and franchises of railroad cor
porations under the laws of Vermont, and the
powers ana trhnCnlse 10 Dulu, own anu operate u
railroad from Bennington to the Vermont State
line, being that portion OF the railroad hereinaf
ter described, which is in the State of Vermont,
and to transfer and convey such powers and fran
chises and any property and to consolidate with
railroad companies.
And also the following described property to
wit:
All and singular the tracks or roadway of the
Lebanon Springs Railroad, from Chatham Four
Corners. in the County of Columbia, to the east
line the State of New York, in the town of Hoo
sick, in the County of Rensselaer,, and all the
lands acquired and hereafter to be acquired for
the purpose OF forming said track or roadway;
also the railroad Of the said the Lebanon Springs
Railroad Company already built, and all the rails.
bridges, fences, stations station-houses, wood
houses, buildings and other structures and appur-
tenances thereunto belonging, and also all the
tolls. incomes rents. issues and PROFITS of any and
all of the same and all Of the above mentioned
powers and franchises; and also all the rolling
stock locomotives, tenders, plOws .scrapers.
passenger cars, baggage, mail and express cars.
freight, stock and dumping cars, fiat cars and
and blacksmith shops. and all the articles used in
the construction replacing and repairing of
roads and cars and in the running OF cars; and
also the Vermont and New York Railroad con-
structed from the terminus of the railroad last
above described in the town of HoOsick aforesaid
to the village of Bennington in the State OF Yer
mont including all the equipment and all the
above mentioned powers and franchises OF the
said Vermont and New York Railroad Company
belonging to or in Sny wise appertaining to, or
which may at any time belong to or appertain to
have belonged to or appeTtained to the same or
either Of of said railroads companies, as we'll in
law as in equity; including also all property or
every kind name or nature of or purchased by
or now or heretofore in the possession of the
he