Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. A bill was filed by the appellees, against the appellants, and the Potomac Company, on the 23d of June, 1828, which stated—That by an act of the legislature of Maryland, passed at December session, 1820, entitled, “An act to incorporate The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, it was enacted, that as soon as ten thousand shares of the capital stock of said company should be subscribed, the subscribers thereof should be incorporated into a…
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. A bill was filed by the appellees, against the appellants, and the Potomac Company, on the 23d of June, 1828, which stated—That by an act of the legislature of Maryland, passed at December session, 1820, entitled, “An act to incorporate The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, it was enacted, that as soon as ten thousand shares of the capital stock of said company should be subscribed, the subscribers thereof should be incorporated into a company by the name of The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, and should be clothed with all the powers necessary to…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The charter of the Potomac Company, was created by the mutual and concurrent legislative acts of Maryland and Virginia, in the year 1784, to which there are many supplements.
The act for incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, was passed by the legislature of Virginia on the 27th of January, 1824. The 1st section of which has this provision, “that so soon as the legislatures of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the Congress of the United States, shall assent to the provisions of this act, and the Potomac Company shall have signified…
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