Baltimore City Passenger Railway Co. v. Hambleton
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, J.
By chapter 71 of the Acts of 1862 the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company was incorporated. Its capital stock was limited to forty thousand shares, which in the course of a few years were fully paid up. The Act of 1890, ch. 271, made provision for the substitution of some other motive power in the place of horses, which were then used to draw the company’s cars, and authority was given to the company by the Legislature to raise the money needed to effect this change, and to defray the expense of providing rapid transit. The company was accordingly authorized to increase its capital…
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