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Hazard versus Thomas C. Durant correspondence, 1871-1876
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660 SIDNEY DILLON, President. ELISHA ATKINS, Vice-President. E.H. ROLLINS, Sec. and Treas. H.B. WILBUR, Auditor. Union Pacific Railroad Company. [P.O. BOX 5287.] OFFICE, 46 SEARS' BUILDING, Boston, Sept 7th 1875. T.C. Durant, Esq., New York. Dear Sir: Sometime since upon the previous written authority of a majority of the Trustees, I brought suit, in the name of all the Trustees, against R.G. Hazard to recover upon his contract of August 26, 1869, to return securities held as collateral to a loan. -The character of that contract you know. I understand that Mr. Hazard says that you did not authorize the use of your name. If I had been aware of it before the suit was brought, I should have put your name as one of the defendants in the suit which would have been the only change necessary. Mr. Hazard has brought a cross bin in equity, by way of defence to the above such and has, as he is entitled to by law, [illegible] it upon the attorneys in the former suit, as representing you. -I have caused an appearance to be entered for you in that suit, since I have received no disaffirmance from you in this action of the Trustees. -If, however, you desire
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660 SIDNEY DILLON, President. ELISHA ATKINS, Vice-President. E.H. ROLLINS, Sec. and Treas. H.B. WILBUR, Auditor. Union Pacific Railroad Company. [P.O. BOX 5287.] OFFICE, 46 SEARS' BUILDING, Boston, Sept 7th 1875. T.C. Durant, Esq., New York. Dear Sir: Sometime since upon the previous written authority of a majority of the Trustees, I brought suit, in the name of all the Trustees, against R.G. Hazard to recover upon his contract of August 26, 1869, to return securities held as collateral to a loan. -The character of that contract you know. I understand that Mr. Hazard says that you did not authorize the use of your name. If I had been aware of it before the suit was brought, I should have put your name as one of the defendants in the suit which would have been the only change necessary. Mr. Hazard has brought a cross bin in equity, by way of defence to the above such and has, as he is entitled to by law, [illegible] it upon the attorneys in the former suit, as representing you. -I have caused an appearance to be entered for you in that suit, since I have received no disaffirmance from you in this action of the Trustees. -If, however, you desire
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