Johnson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Limestone. Tried before the Hon. John Moore. The indictment in this case charged that the defendant, “being liable to road duty,' did fail or refuse, after legal notice, to work the public roads, either in person, or by substitute.”
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From the Circuit Court of Limestone. Tried before the Hon. John Moore. The indictment in this case charged that the defendant, “being liable to road duty,' did fail or refuse, after legal notice, to work the public roads, either in person, or by substitute.” On the trial, as the bill of exceptions states, “it was admitted that the defendant is guilty as charged, unless he is excused by the following facts, which are also admitted and agreed on: The act of the General Assembly of Tennessee incorporating the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company, approved February 2d, 1846, as contained in…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
The first section of an “An act to incorporate the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company,” passed by the General Assembly of Alabama in January, *1791850, declares: “Said company shall have and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges granted to them by the acts of incorporation above mentioned, and shall be subject to all the liabilities and restrictions imposed by the same.” The acts above mentioned are recited in the preamble as an act passed by the State of Tennessee in February, 1846, and an act amending the same passed in February, 1848, “for the formation of a company under the…
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