Klosterman v. Mason County Central Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Anders, J.

— The Mason County Central Railroad Company was incorporated in the year 1888, under and by virtue of the laws of the then Territory of Washington. The objects for which it was formed, as indicated in its articles of incorporation, were to build and operate a railroad from Shelton, in Mason county, to some point on the Chehalis river, and to carry on a general lumbering and sawmill business at said town of Shelton. It would seem, however, that the contemplated railroad was not designed .or intended as a road for general traffic, but simply as…