State v. White's Creek Turnpike Co.

Ti-xe Chancellor:

Bill filed March 28, 1876, in the name of the state of Tennessee, on the information of seventeen citizens of the county of Davidson, living along the White’s Creek Turnpike Hoad, and compelled to travel on it in going to and from Nashville, to have the franchises of the corporation declared forfeited for a failure to keep the road in the condition required by its charter. The bill is signed by private counsel, not by the attorney-general of the state, nor does it purport to be by him or his authority in any way. The defendants demur upon the ground that the bill is the bill…