Cypress Pond Draining Co. v. Hooper
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 75 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM ONION EQUITY AND CRIMINAL COURT. cited Churchill vs. Jefferson Pond Company, MS. opinion May, 1840. cited Constitution Ky., art. 13, secs. 14, 30; 1 J. J. Mar., 567; 9 Dana, 516, 517; 7 B. Mon., 167 ; 13 lb., 31, 32, 33 ; 16 lb., 498. cited 1 Sess. Acts 1855-6, page 292; 2 Kent, 309, 8th edition; lb., 310, 312; A Burr., 2200; 3 Term Rep., 240; 2 Mass. Rep., 269 ; 1 Greenleaf's Rep., 79 ; 1 Strob. Eq. Rep., 209; 16 Pick., 412; 18 Eng.
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CASE 75 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM ONION EQUITY AND CRIMINAL COURT. cited Churchill vs. Jefferson Pond Company, MS. opinion May, 1840. cited Constitution Ky., art. 13, secs. 14, 30; 1 J. J. Mar., 567; 9 Dana, 516, 517; 7 B. Mon., 167 ; 13 lb., 31, 32, 33 ; 16 lb., 498. cited 1 Sess. Acts 1855-6, page 292; 2 Kent, 309, 8th edition; lb., 310, 312; A Burr., 2200; 3 Term Rep., 240; 2 Mass. Rep., 269 ; 1 Greenleaf's Rep., 79 ; 1 Strob. Eq. Rep., 209; 16 Pick., 412; 18 Eng. Law Eq. Rep., 199; Bacon’s Ab., 2 vol., title Corporations, (new ed.,) 457; 4 Peters, 167; 3 Paige, 45 ; 2 Bac. Al.,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DUVALL
delivered tiie opinion of the court:
By an act of the Legislature, approved February 13, 1856, (Session Acts 1855-6, page 292,) George Payne, George Plenshaw, Thomas R. Given, James D. Ames, A. L. Churchill, and Willis G. Hughes, and the inhabitants living within the boundary described in a subsequent section of the act, were “incorporated and made a body politic, by the name of the Cypress Pond Draining Company ; and they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, and full power and authority to drain, and keep drained, the lands within the boundary hereinafter…
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