State ex inf. Crow v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Quo Warranto. (1) Information in the nature of a quo warranto is now the proper remedy where' a corporation having a legal existence has forfeited its charter as well as where a de facto corporation assumes to exercise corporate powers without authority. Scire facias having formerly been used in the first case and the information in the second. State v. Eq.
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Quo Warranto. (1) Information in the nature of a quo warranto is now the proper remedy where' a corporation having a legal existence has forfeited its charter as well as where a de facto corporation assumes to exercise corporate powers without authority. Scire facias having formerly been used in the first case and the information in the second. State v. Eq. Loan Ass’n, 142 Mo. 325. It is the proper remedy to test the right to exercise particular franchises not within the terms of the charter, and to oust the corporation therefrom. State v. Taylor, 25 Ohio St. 279; People v. Board of…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
This is a proceeding by quo warranto ex informations the Attorney-General, against the respondent, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, a railroad corporation doing business in this State, to oust it from the exercise of certain rights, privileges and franchises alleged to be illegal A exercised by it.
The information alleges that the respondent is a *702corporation of the State of Kansas, operating lines oi railway extending through the Territory of Oklahoma and the States of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, to Chicago, Illinois; and extending west and south from Kansas City to…
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