State v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appbai.s from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. This was an action commenced by the attorney general without special authority and without leave of any court against numerous defendants who may be classified as follows: (1) The railway company, hereinafter called the corporation; (2) several directors of that company who were such in 1899 and 1900 and also at the time of the commencement of the suit; (3) several persons, some of…
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Appbai.s from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. This was an action commenced by the attorney general without special authority and without leave of any court against numerous defendants who may be classified as follows: (1) The railway company, hereinafter called the corporation; (2) several directors of that company who were such in 1899 and 1900 and also at the time of the commencement of the suit; (3) several persons, some of them included in the second class, who were and still are directors of the North American Company; (4) Fred Vogel, Jr.,…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The attorney general asserts that his cause of action is that declared or created by sec. 3231, Stats. (1898), and placed in the state, to be exercised by the attorney gen*183eral, by sec. 3239, Stats. (1898). These statutes have their origin in the legislation of New York (part 3, ch. 8, tit. IV, §§ 33, 35, N. Y. R. S'. 1829), enacted in response to the opinion, or doubt, of Chancellor KeNt that no power of supervision or control over other than charitable corporations was vested in the court of chancery. Att’y Gen. v. Utica Ins. Co. 2 Johns. Ch. 371. Their purpose was to confer new jurisdiction…
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- United States v. Union Pacific R. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1908
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