Maddox v. Graham & Knox
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE. 15 — PETITION FOR MANDAMUS — APPEAL EHOM MASÓN CIHCUIT COUKT. cited, Tapping on Mandamus, chap. 3, page 74, Amer. ed., and notes; lb. pages 32 and 85, and notes ; 5 Texas Rep., 471; 2 Watts Sf Serg., 416; 1 Halst., 179; 18 B. Mon., 426; lb., 852; Tapping on Mandamus, pages 60, 422, 460; Bacon’s Ab., tit. Mandamus, page 520; Morehead’s Practice, page 253, and notes ; 3 Blackstone, 113 ; Angelí Sf Ames on Corporations, pages 817, 818; Pierce on Amer.
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CASE. 15 — PETITION FOR MANDAMUS — APPEAL EHOM MASÓN CIHCUIT COUKT. cited, Tapping on Mandamus, chap. 3, page 74, Amer. ed., and notes; lb. pages 32 and 85, and notes ; 5 Texas Rep., 471; 2 Watts Sf Serg., 416; 1 Halst., 179; 18 B. Mon., 426; lb., 852; Tapping on Mandamus, pages 60, 422, 460; Bacon’s Ab., tit. Mandamus, page 520; Morehead’s Practice, page 253, and notes ; 3 Blackstone, 113 ; Angelí Sf Ames on Corporations, pages 817, 818; Pierce on Amer. É. R.'Law,page 108, and note; Angelí Sf Ames on Corporations, page 275; 4 McLean, C. C. R., pages 8, 387; 8 Gill Johns., 248; 1 Maryland CKy…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE WOOD
DELIVERED THE OPINION OP THE COURT:
By an act of the Legislature of Kentucky, approved 4th March, 1850, the Maysville and Lexington railroad company was chartered, with power to construct and maintain a railway, commencing at any eligible point in or near the city of Mays-ville, thence by the most practicable route to or near the city of Lexington.
The 28th section of said act of incorporation conferred upon the cities of Maysville and Lexington, and the counties of Mason, Nicholas, Bourbon, and Fayette, and any other city, county, or corporation, power and authority to hold stock in…
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