R. R. Co. v. . Commissioners

On the 2d day of February, 1857, the general assembly passed an act incorporating a company by the name of "The Coal Fields and South Carolina Railroad Company," as designated in one section, and in another, "The Cheraw and Coal Fields Railroad," having for its object the construction of a line of railroad connecting with some one of those then built, or in course of building, in that state, and passing by Carthage, terminating at the coal fields, on Deep river, in Chatham county. Its capital stock was fixed at two million dollars, and the company, when formed and organized, was invested with…