State ex rel. Kincaid v. Hamilton

John W. Green, Special Judge,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In tbe year 1890, G. W. Montgomery and others organized under tbe laws of Tennessee a private corporation for profit, known as tbe East Cumberland Gap Land Company, for tbe purpose of purchasing large tracts of real estate and subdividing tbe same into smaller tracts, town sites, lots, streets and alleys. Prior to obtaining this charter the said incorporators bad already in the year 1889, purchased from T. A. Hamilton and J. B. Hamilton a portion of their farms, and also other adjacent lands from other owners, and had laid off…