Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad v. State ex rel. Ketcham
Indiana Supreme Court
From Marion Superior Court; Vinson Garter, Judge. Suit by the State on the relation of W. A. Ketcham, Attorney-General, against the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company for an accounting. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, C. J.
— Suit by appellee for an accounting, to the use of the common schools, for earnings in excess of amount authorized by law.
The facts material to a decision of the case not disclosed in the opinion are these: The General Assembly by an act approved January 26, 1847 (Local Laws 1847, p. 77), constituted a number of gentlemen named, and their successors in office, a body corporate and politic under the name of “The President and Directors of the Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad Company” with full power to construct and operate a railroad from a point on the. western line of the State of Indiana,…
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