Holman v. State ex rel. Gibson

Mitchell, J. —

The State, by an information in the nature of a quo warranto, charged that William J. Holman and ten others were assuming to act as a corporation under the name of the Fort Wayne, Warren and Brazil Railway Company; that, as such corporation, they were making contracts, incurring debts, soliciting aid from townships, -towns and cities, making surveys, appropriating lands, etc., without any warrant or authority of law. They were challenged to show by what authority they assumed so to act.

By a special answer the defendants admitted they were acting as a railway corporation, and…