State ex rel. Coleman v. Inner Belt Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

A careful review of the evidence in this case leads this court to make the following conclusions:(1) That in its inception the incorporation of the Inner Belt Railway Company was not effected by the incorporators in good faith, for the purpose of building and operating, or of aiding in building and operating, a service railroad; that the principal motive in obtaining the franchise was so to simulate a railway corporation as to deceive the public and the officers and courts of the state, and thereby to procure the exercise of the power of…