Dewing v. Perdicaries
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States fo the District of South Carolina. The facts are .stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
IvIr. Justice Swayne
delivered the opinion of the court.
There is no controversy about the material facts of this case.
At the beginning of the late civil war, the Charleston Gas light Company was a body politic and corporate of the city of-Charleston, in the State' of South Carolina. . Its capital stock consisted of thirty thousand six hundred and sixty-four shares of $25 each. Aspart of the stock was held -by citizens of other ■ states. - Pursuant to a statute of the Confederate States, and. an order of the Confederate District Court for'the District of South Carplina, three thousand seven…
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