Berry v. Baltimore & Drum Point Railroad
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County,, in Equity. The bill of complaint in this case filed by the appellant on the 12th of December, 1874, charged that the appellee was incorporated by the Act of 18(58, ch. 864, and authorized to construct a railroad from some point in or near Baltimore, through the counties of Anne Arundel and Calvert, to a point at or near the mouth of the Patuxent river; that the company was duly organized under its charter, and invited…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County,, in Equity. The bill of complaint in this case filed by the appellant on the 12th of December, 1874, charged that the appellee was incorporated by the Act of 18(58, ch. 864, and authorized to construct a railroad from some point in or near Baltimore, through the counties of Anne Arundel and Calvert, to a point at or near the mouth of the Patuxent river; that the company was duly organized under its charter, and invited and .obtained subscriptions to its capital stock — that among others the complainant subscribed to the capital stock of…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvet, J.
This is an appeal from a pro forma order of the Court below, refusing an injunction to the appellant, to restrain the execution of a judgment recovered against him by the appellee, for balance of subscription to the stock of that corporation; and the ground of the application is, that, under the Act of 1874, chapter 389, section 3, amendatory of the company’s charter, which was granted by the Act of 1868, chapter 364, the duration of the charter is limited to the first of January, 1875, the company not having finished or completed its road as provided it should have done.
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