Atherton v. Campbell

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

BALLOU, J.

This is a submission on an agreed statement of facts from which it appears that the plaintiffs having taken preliminary steps for organizing an association to be known as the Pearl Harbor Traction Company made application to the defendant for a charter of incorporation authorizing the carrying on of a railway and other businesses under R. L. Sec. 2542. The defendant, with the consent of the governor, refused to grant the charter on the grounds that an association for constructing and operating a railway could not be chartered under R. L. Sec. 2542, but in…