Brown v. Atlanta Railway & Power Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for injunction. Before Judge Lumpkin. Fulton superior court. March 1, 1901. This was a petition against the Atlanta Railway and Power Company, the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company, and the Atlanta Street Railroad Company, to prevent the construction of a street-railway line in front of the plaintiff’s premises on Washington street in the City of Atlanta, and the making of a connection between the lines of the two companies last mentioned, the removal of tracks…
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Petition for injunction. Before Judge Lumpkin. Fulton superior court. March 1, 1901. This was a petition against the Atlanta Railway and Power Company, the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company, and the Atlanta Street Railroad Company, to prevent the construction of a street-railway line in front of the plaintiff’s premises on Washington street in the City of Atlanta, and the making of a connection between the lines of the two companies last mentioned, the removal of tracks and the change of routes and schedules on Woodward avenue, on Pulliam street, and on Clarke street from Pulliam to,…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
1. Corporations, using that term to designate organizations merely claiming or alleged to be corporations as well as those which are in all respects legally constituted, have been divided into three classes, corporations de jure, corporations de facto, and corporations by estoppel. Corporations de jure have been de*468fined to be those whose legal right to exist can not be questioned even by the State itself. The expression “ de facto corporations ” is generally used to denote associations exercising corporate powers under color of a more or less legal organization. One who has contracted with a…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Union Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. DottenheimSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
- Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1894
- Hurt v. City of AtlantaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1897
- Central Agricultural & Mechanical Ass'n v. Alabama Gold Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- Cason v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1914
- Baranan v. Fulton CountySupreme Court of Georgia · 1974
- Fleming v. City of RomeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1908
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