Green County v. Shortell
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 10 — 'Action by J. D. Shortell against Green County to Recover on Past Due Coupons on Green County Bonds Subscribed to the C. & O. R. R. Co. APPEAL FROM GREEN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. CLASSIFICATION OF POINTS.. 1. Conditional subscriptions to stock in the Cumberland' & Ohio Railroad 'Company were expressly authorized by its charter.
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Case 10 — 'Action by J. D. Shortell against Green County to Recover on Past Due Coupons on Green County Bonds Subscribed to the C. & O. R. R. Co. APPEAL FROM GREEN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. CLASSIFICATION OF POINTS.. 1. Conditional subscriptions to stock in the Cumberland' & Ohio Railroad 'Company were expressly authorized by its charter. Shelby County Court v. Cumberland & Ohio R. R. Co., 8 Rush, 217. Such’ also is the general law in (tlhe- absence, from ’the charter or law authorizing the subscription, of a prohibition of conditional subscriptions tío…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE HOBSiON
Reversing.
The Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company was incorporated by an act approved February 24, 1869 (1 Sess. Acts, 1869, p. 463, c. 1578). It was vested with power to construct and operate a railroad from the Ohio river, through the counties of Henry, Shelby, Washington, Nelson, Marion, Taylor, Green, Barren and Allen, to a point on the-boundary line between the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, “to be selected by the president and directors, about due north from the town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with a view of comnecrting with the southern systems of…
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