New Orleans, Jackson, & Great Northern Railroad v. Harris
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the circuit court of Monroe county; Hon. William L. Harris, judge. The opinion of the court contains the facts of the case. This suit was brought in the circuit court of Monroe county to recover the sum of one thousand dollars then due on stock subscribed by the said Overton Harris in the Canton, Kosciusko, Aberdeen, and Tuscumbia Railroad Company, and by said company transferred to the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad Company.
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On appeal from the circuit court of Monroe county; Hon. William L. Harris, judge. The opinion of the court contains the facts of the case. This suit was brought in the circuit court of Monroe county to recover the sum of one thousand dollars then due on stock subscribed by the said Overton Harris in the Canton, Kosciusko, Aberdeen, and Tuscumbia Railroad Company, and by said company transferred to the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad Company. Defendant demurred, assigning many causes. This demurrer was sustained by the court below, and an amendment allowed. A second demurrer…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Smith
This suit was instituted in the circuit court of Monroe by the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad Company, to recover one thousand dollars alleged to be due by the defendant in error, Overton Harris, for certain calls made upon the stock owned by him in said company.
In the first count of the complaint filed by the plaintiffs in error, it was alleged, that under and by virtue of an act of the *532legislature of Louisiana, approved March the 11th, 1852, they became a corporation, with the name above set forth, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a railroad from New…
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