Waldo v. Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. This was an action to have certain conveyances of land, made by the plaintiff to one Wm. B. Ogden, and by the latter to one Mahbn D. Ogden, set aside, or declared void, and to compel a reconveyance to the plaintiff.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. This was an action to have certain conveyances of land, made by the plaintiff to one Wm. B. Ogden, and by the latter to one Mahbn D. Ogden, set aside, or declared void, and to compel a reconveyance to the plaintiff. The complaint was filed January 31,1859, and after stating that the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad Company, in the fall or winter of 1856, appointed a committee to canvass for subscriptions to the stock of said company, to be paid by conveyances of land to said Wm. B. Ogden, and that Bradley, Pease, Wood and Johnson,…
1Opinion of the Court
A/ die Court,
Cole, J.
In the case of Clark vs. Farrington, 11 Wis. R., 306-424, this court, among other things, held that a railroad corporation could not engage in any distinct *581or separate branch, of business not authorized bj its charter, for the purpose of raising funds to accomplish the for which it was created ; that while the corporation, in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by its charter, might adopt any convenient means proper in themselves, to accomplish the objects of its creation, it could not embark in the business of banking, or manufacturing, or speculating in real…
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