State ex rel. Crossland v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Railway & Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Council Bluffs Superior Court. — Hon. J. E. E. MoG-ee, Judge. This is a civil action by ordinary proceeding under chapter 6, title 20, of the Code, wherein the plaintiff asks, for reasons alleged, that the charter and franchise of the Iowa corporation “be ordered and adjudged forfeited, and the same be canceled and the said corporation dissolved, and that the defendant the Nebraska corporation, as well as the defendant the Iowa corporation, be required to show…
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Appeal from Council Bluffs Superior Court. — Hon. J. E. E. MoG-ee, Judge. This is a civil action by ordinary proceeding under chapter 6, title 20, of the Code, wherein the plaintiff asks, for reasons alleged, that the charter and franchise of the Iowa corporation “be ordered and adjudged forfeited, and the same be canceled and the said corporation dissolved, and that the defendant the Nebraska corporation, as well as the defendant the Iowa corporation, be required to show cause, if there be any, why such order and judgment should not pass;” that all the rights and privileges conferred oh said…
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
*5201 *519I. In 1868, the city of Council Bluffs granted to the Council Bluffs Street Bailway Company the right to construct and operate a street railway on certain streets, and requiring it to construct additional lines to any depot or ferry thereafter opened in the city. Said company constructed and operated a single track horse railway on various streets until 1888. October 20, 1886, the defendant, the Iowa corporation was duly organized under the laws of this state, its second article being as follows: “The general nature *520of the business to be transacted by this corporation shall be to construct,…
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