Southern Plank-Road Co. v. Hixon

Bill in chancery to obtain an injunction. A temporary injunction was granted in vacation, without notice to the defendants, but was dissolved at the next term of the Circuit Court. Appeal to this Court.

The bill states that certain persons organized themselves under the general plank-road law into a corporate body, in May, 1850, by articles providing, among other things, “that it was the object and purpose of said association to construct a plank road of such dimensions, structure and description as should be by said association thereafter determined upon, commencing at Michigan City, in the…