Hunt v. Kansas & Missouri Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of Kansas
Erren' from Leavenworth District Court. This action was commenced in the district court by the Kansas & Missouri Bridge Company to recover from Hunt $2,000 alleged to be due from him on assessments made by the plaintiff’s board of directors on the amount of stock subscribed for by Hunt in said company.
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Erren' from Leavenworth District Court. This action was commenced in the district court by the Kansas & Missouri Bridge Company to recover from Hunt $2,000 alleged to be due from him on assessments made by the plaintiff’s board of directors on the amount of stock subscribed for by Hunt in said company. The petition alleges the following facts: On the 16th of November 1867, a certificate for the organization of said corporation was duly filed in the office of the secretary of state of the state of Kansas, which certificate is as follows: State oe Kansas, County oe Leavenworth, ss. : The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
The principal questions involved in this, case are as follows: First, Has the legislature of the state of Kansas the power to pass an act authorizing the organization of a corporation to build a bridge across the Missouri river at a place where said river forms the boundary line between the state of Kansas and the state of Missouri? Second, Has the legislature passed any such act? or in other words, did the act of February 27th 1866, (Laws of 1866, page 124,). *433concerning corporations, authorize the organization of a corporation for such a…
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