The Portland daily press., 1892-05-04
To the Honorable Justice of the Supreme
judicial Court TO be held in and for the
County of Cumberland on the second
Tuesday of April A. ID. 1892.

To the Honorable Justice of the Supreme
judicial Court TO be held in and for the
County of Cumberland on the second
Tuesday of April A. ID. 1892.
D ESPECTFULLY represents the Maine Cen
~ tral Railroad Company, a corporation es-
tablished by law and having its principal office
at Portland IN said County of Cumberland, that
on the eleventh day of December 1856, tile An
droscoggin Railroad Company, corporation
organized under the laws of this State and then
existing, mortgaged its raiload extending from
It's junction with the AndroScoggin and Kenne-
bee Railroad now the Maine Central Railroad,
In the town of Leeds in the County of andre
sscoggin to Farmington in the County OF Frank,
bonds issued by said Androscoggin Railroad
Company to the amount of two hundred and
thirty thousand dollars;
That thereafterwardS there was breach of
the conditions of said mortgage, and thereupon
such proceedings were had that said mortgage
was absolutely foreclosed on the eleventh day
OF May, A. ID. 1865, and thereupon ON said
eleventh day of May, A. D. 1865 the holders of
the bonds secured by said mortgage, in accor-
dance with the laws of the State, organized a
new corporation by the name of the Leeds and
Harrington Railroad Company, which by virtue
OF said foreclosure and the statutes of the State
IN such cases made and provided, succeeded to
company so far as relates to said railroad ex-
tending from said Leeds junction to Farming
ton, and became the owner of said railroad ex-
That said Leeds and Pennington Railroad Com
pany, organized as aforesaid, by virtue of stat
ute in that case made and provided, mortgaged
its railroad aforesaid from, Leeds Junction
to Pennington on the first day of July A.
D. 1871 to Rensselaer, Cram, George E. b.
jackson and John w. Perkins, all of Portland
in the County of Cumberland, Trustees, to Sc
cure bonds issued by said Company to the
amount of six hundred and thirty-tEree thou
sand dollars, and that said bonds are still out
standing and unpaid, not having yet become
due; -
That on the sixteenth day of November A. D..
1874, by virtue of the Act approved February
26, 1878, the said Leeds and Harrington Rail-
Maine Central Railroad Company, whereby
said Maine Central Railroad Company has
taken possession of all and singular the rights.
property and franchises of said Leeds and
Pennington Railroad Company. and is still pos
Sessed thereof, and has succeeded to all the
liabilities, duties and obligations of said Leeds
and Pennington Railroad Company;
That since the giving of said mortgage by
said Leeds and Pennington Railroad Company
said RENSSELAER, Cram and said George Z. B. Jack
son have deceased without fully executing said
trust;
And said Maine Central Company is inter-
eSted to have said trust administered according
to It's terms and provisions of law:
wherefore, said Maine Central Railroad Com
pany prays that Trustees may be appointed in
place OF said Cram and jackson, to finish the
execution>of said trust.
Dated this eleventh day of April A. D. 1892.
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY
by Drunmond g. Drummond, its Attorneys