Montgomery Palace Stock-Car Co. v. Street Stable-Car Line

This case is now before the court on a demurrer, both general and special, to the bill. The essential facts, as stated in the bill, are these: On the 25th of August, 1870, one John W. Street was the owner of patents Nos. 96,362, and 96,500, which had been issued less than a year previously for improvements in stock-cars, and on that day ho made an agreement with 18 other persons for the formation of a corporation under the laws of Illinois to be called the “Street Palace Stock-Car Company,” to utilize the said patents by the construction and running of cars made in accordance therewith. The…