Excerpt from Supplemental Report Relating to the Elevated Railroads of the City of New York: March 2, 1880
If such transactions are legal, then there can be no protection for stockholders against stock-watering, until the leasing of railroads is carefully and properly guarded. If the leases and agreements in ques tion can be sustained, it must be in pursuance of some statute and not upon any principle of law or public policy. And the legislature should, as speedily as may be, render impossible similar transactions in the future.
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