State ex inf. Crow v. Lindell Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Quo Warranto. • (1) Corporations are creatures of tbe law, and when they fail to perform duties which they were incorporated to perform, and in which the public have an interest, or do acts which are not authorized or are forbidden them to do, the State may forfeit their franchises and dissolve them by an information in the nature of a quo warranto. 2 Beach, Priv. Corp., sec. 840; State ex rel. v. Meek, 129 Mo. 431; People v. N. E. Sugar Eef.
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Quo Warranto. • (1) Corporations are creatures of tbe law, and when they fail to perform duties which they were incorporated to perform, and in which the public have an interest, or do acts which are not authorized or are forbidden them to do, the State may forfeit their franchises and dissolve them by an information in the nature of a quo warranto. 2 Beach, Priv. Corp., sec. 840; State ex rel. v. Meek, 129 Mo. 431; People v. N. E. Sugar Eef. Co., 121 N. Y. 582; People v. Chicago L. S. Exc., 170 111. 556; People v. Chicago Gas Trust, 130 111. 268; People v. Pullman Palace Car Co., 51 N. E.…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
This is an original proceeding of quo warranto, instituted by the Attorney-General, ex officio, to oust the respondent from exercising the following rights, privileges and franchises:
First. Of extending, constructing, maintaining, and operating a street railroad with a double track in the city of St. Louis on and along a route described as follows, to wit: Reginning at the intersection of the tracks of the Forest Park, Lacle'de and Fourth Street Railway Company at- Laclede •avenue, where the same intersects Channing avenue, thence northwardly along Channing avenue to and into Cook avenue,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- James v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'nSupreme Court of Missouri · 1899
- Union Depot Railroad v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1891
- St. Louis Railroad v. Northwestern St. Louis Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1878
- St. Louis Railroad v. South St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1880
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- Brown v. Louisiana & Missouri River RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1914
- State Ex Inf. McAllister Ex Rel. Manion v. Albany Drainage DistrictSupreme Court of Missouri · 1921
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