Flint & Fentonville Plank-road Co. v. Woodhull

The legislature‘of 1848 passed an act incorporating the Flint & Fentonville Plank-road Company, with power to lay out, establish and construct a plank-road, and all necessary buildings, from the village of Flint to the village of Fentonville. The act was to remain in force for sixty years ■from and after its passage, but the fourth section provided that “the legislature may at any time alter, amend, or repeal this act, by a vote of two-thirds of each branch thereof; but such alteration, amendment, or repeal shall not be made within thirty years of the passage of this act, unless it shall be…