People ex rel. Attorney General v. River Raisin & Lake Erie Railroad

Campbell J. :

The Attorney General filed an information, charging defendants with usurping the following liberties, privileges and franchises, viz: “That of becoming proprietors of a bank or fund, for the purpose of issuing notes, and transacting other business which incorporated banks may and do transact, by virtue of their respective acts of incorporation, and also that of actually issuing notes and carrying on banking operations, and other monied transactions, which are usually performed by incorporated banks, and which they alone have a right to do and inquiring by what warrant they claim…