IS VIRGINIA A REPUDIATING STATE? AND THE STATE'S GUARANTEE, WHAT IS IT WORTH? BEING TWO LETTERS OF ROBERT TYLER, ESQ. OF PHILADELPHIA, AND AN EXAMINATION, BY 'A CITIZEN' OF VIRGINIA, OF THE DECISION OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CHANCERY FOR THE RICHMOND CIRCUIT, IN THE CASE OF THE RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG AND POTOMAC RAIL ROAD COMPANY VS. THE VIRGINIA CENTRAL, AND ORANGE & ALEXANDRIA R.R. COMPANIES.
Richmond: Printed at the Whig Job Office, 1858. Original printed wrappers [spine reinforced with archival tape]. 43, [1 blank] pp. Light wear, small corner chip to front wrapper. Good+ to Very Good.
"The state of Virginia, as an inducement to capitalists to subscribe large sums of money for the construction of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail Road, pledged itself, for the period of thirty years, not to allow any other rail road to be constructed between" Richmond and Washington, if doing so would diminish traffic on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac line. Tyler and an anonymous writer known only as 'A Citizen of Virginia, Interested only in the Preservation of the Faith of the State,' protest court decisions permitting a competing extension of the line of the Virginia Central Rail Road. The pamphlet argues that the State's breach of its solemn obligation is illegal and, more important, dishonorable.
Not in Haynes, Swem, Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker, Harv. Law Cat., Marke, Cohen. OCLC 3420155 [11] as of April 2024. Item #25739
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