State ex rel. Pitts v. Nashville Baseball Club
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON; Appeal from the Chancery Court of Davidson County. —John Addison, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
The bill in this case was filed on the relation of certain citizens of Nashville, in the name of the State against the Nashville Baseball Club, a Tennessee corporation, for the purpose of having the charter of said corporation forfeited and its affairs wound up under supervision of the court.
The ground upon which said forfeiture was asked was that the defendant had been guilty of repeated and flagrant breaches “of the statute of the State forbidding Sunday baseball games.”
Several defenses were interposed, which it is not necessary here to notice, and the defendant filed an answer, in which,…
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