State ex rel. Green v. Lawrence Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of Kansas
Original Proceedings in Quo Warranto. The petition herein was filed in this court February 19, 1879; the answer thereto, by the Lawrence Bridge Company, C. W. Babcock, Edward Thompson, Jerre Brooks, and •Charles Pearsall, the defendants, was filed March 21,1879; and the reply thereto, April 21,1879. The act incorporating said bridge company, pleaded in the second defense contained in the defendants’ answer, is as follows: “Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative…
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Original Proceedings in Quo Warranto. The petition herein was filed in this court February 19, 1879; the answer thereto, by the Lawrence Bridge Company, C. W. Babcock, Edward Thompson, Jerre Brooks, and •Charles Pearsall, the defendants, was filed March 21,1879; and the reply thereto, April 21,1879. The act incorporating said bridge company, pleaded in the second defense contained in the defendants’ answer, is as follows: “Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas: “Section 1. That the exclusive right and privilege of building and maintaining a bridge…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This is an action in the nature of quo warranto,, brought originally in this court by the state of Kansas, ex rel. James W. Green, county attorney of Douglas county, as plaintiff, charging C. W. Babcock and his associates with wrongfully assuming to exercise corporate rights *454as the “Lawrence Bridge Company,” and with claiming and using, without any lawful warrant, grant, or charter, the liberties, privileges and franchises of having and maintaining a bridge over and across the Kansas river at the city of Lawrence, and of asking, demanding…
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