Attorney General v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
INFORMATIONS for Writs of Injunction. These were informations filed in this court July 8, 1874, by the attorney general of this state, acting for the state, praying for writs of injunction to restrain the two defendant companies from exacting tolls for the carriage of passengers or freight in excess of the maximum rates established bych. 273, laws of 1874. "When these proceedings were commenced, there were pending in this court informations in the nature of •quo warranto,…
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INFORMATIONS for Writs of Injunction. These were informations filed in this court July 8, 1874, by the attorney general of this state, acting for the state, praying for writs of injunction to restrain the two defendant companies from exacting tolls for the carriage of passengers or freight in excess of the maximum rates established bych. 273, laws of 1874. "When these proceedings were commenced, there were pending in this court informations in the nature of •quo warranto, filed by the attorney general June 2, 1874, against the same defendants severally, to have a forfeiture of their charters…
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Cole and Lyon, Justices,
concurring, an order was made by the court, on the 15th day of September, in accordance with the foregoing opinion. Afterwards the attorney general moved to vacate so much of said order as excepted from the injunction *597thereby directed to issue, the railroad of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company extending from Milwaukee to Prairie du Ohien. The substance of the affidavits used at the hearing of this motion is stated in the opinion, infra.
I. C. Sloan, Assistant Attorney General, for the motion. John W. Cary, contra, argued that the action of the…
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