Collins v. Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This was an action to recover the value of the retainer and services of the plaintiff, as an attorney for the Rock River Valley Union Railroa
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
Although the complaint in this case is not as specific and certain as it might have been, in setting forth the various steps taken to consolidate the different railroad companies therein mentioned, still we think it is sufficient on demurrer.
The complaint states that the Rock River Valley Union Railroad Company was made and became in 1850 a corporation, and so remained up to the time of the accruing of the indebtedness to the respondent; that thereafter, by an act of the legislature passed and approved on the 10th day of March, 1855, it was authorized to consolidate with…
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