State v. Needham

This is a proceeding by information, under the code, against the appellees,, for an alleged unlawful exercise of corporate power in the construction of a. gravel road.

The corporation which is assailed in the information is the “ Eranklin and Sugar Creek Gravel Road Company,” which was organized under the act of March 6th, 1865 (Acts 1865, Reg. Sess. p. 90).

The question made in this case, as to the constitutionality of the law under which the appellees- claim to act as a corporation, was settled by this court in Law v. The Madison, &c., Turnpike Co., 30 Ind. 77. There are two other grounds…