Oroville & Va. R.R. v. Supervisors of Plumas Cty.
California Supreme Court
This was an application to this Court for a writ of mandate to compel the Board of Supervisors of the County of Plumas to subscribe to the capital stock of the Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Company the sum of two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and to issue to said corporation the bonds of the county in payment of the subscription.
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This was an application to this Court for a writ of mandate to compel the Board of Supervisors of the County of Plumas to subscribe to the capital stock of the Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Company the sum of two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and to issue to said corporation the bonds of the county in payment of the subscription. The Legislature passed an Act, approved March 30th, 1868, the first three sections of which are as follows: “ Section 1. The Board of Supervisors of Plumas County, California, are hereby directed to meet at the county seat of said county on the second…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J. :
The petitioner moves that the answer be stricken out, on the ground that it is irrelevant and immaterial, and does not show a legal answer to the writ; and he also moves that the several paragraphs of the answer be stricken out as irrelevant and immaterial.
The first paragraph denies that the Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Company now is or ever was a corporation organized or existing under the laws of the State of California, or otherwise. The third paragraph avers that the petitioner is not entitled to the benefit of a bona fide corporation, for that the…
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