People ex rel. Coon v. Plymouth Plank Road Co.

Graves, Ch. J.

The information filed in this cause charged the defendants in general terms with exercising certain specified franchises without authority, and called upon defendants to show by wbat warrant they assumed to exercise these powers. The defendants set up by plea tbeir authority and right as resting upon an act of incorporation granted by the- legislature. To this the relators replied certain acts relied upon as a ground of forfeiture; and to sucb of tbe matters in tbis replication as tbe relators continued to insist upon tbe defendants demurred specially, and the general question…