Charles  Sedgejield  Crowley,  Edward  Crowley^   Creorge
Frederick    Hotham,    John    Lawrie,    John   Nix,    and
Bri\       James  JFishaw,  may  be  decreed  to  replace  and  repay  all
re  iz-       mxms,  which  have  been  or  may  be  paid  out  of  the  funds
Piv.       of  the  South  Coast  Company,  in  pursuance  of  the  said
JL-:?.'.-       agreement  or  arrangement  respecting    the  proposed
au.::  1        railway  from  Epsom  to  Leatherhead.     The  bill  further
prays  for  a  sale  of  2033  shares  in  the  Portsmouth  Com-
pany, which  formerly  belonged  to  the  London  and
i:T^         Croydon  Railway   Company,  and  that  an  injunction
may  be  granted  to  restrain  the  parties  from  carrying
out  the  agreement  as  to  the  proposed  railway  from
Epsom  to  Leatherhead,  and  also  from  applying  any  of
the  monies  or  funds  of  the  South  Coast  Company  in
payment  of  the  20,000/.,  or  in  payment  of  further  calls
on  the  4000  shares  and  677  shares  in  the  Portsmouth
Company ;  and  the  bill  prays  for  payment  of  costs  by
the  directors  of  the  Company,  who  are  Defendants,  and
for  further  relief.
To  this  bill,  two  demurrers  for  multi&riousness  and
for  want  of  equity  have  been  put  in:  one  by  the
Defendants  Samuel  Laing,  Leo  Schuster,  William  Cash,
Charles  Sedgejield  Crowley,  Edward  Crotoley,  George
Frederick  Hotham,  John  Lawrie,  John  Nix,  James  Wi^
shaw,  and  the  South  Coast  Company ;  and  the  other  by
WilUam  Arthur  Wilkinson  and  the  Portsmouth  Com-
pany.
The  bill,  though  in  a  prolix  and  complicated  form,
states,  to  the  effect,  that,  in  the  year  184^,  there  were
five  several  railway  companies  known  by  the  respec-
tive names  of  the  London  and  Croydon  Company,  the
Croydon  and  Epsom  Company,  the  London  and  Brighton
Company,  the  Brighton,  Letoes  and  Hastings  Company,

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