N.Y., N.H. H.R.R. Co. v. . Welsh

This proceeding was instituted by the New York, New Haven and Hartford R.R. Co., a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut, to condemn, for railroad purposes, certain lands of the defendants, in the village of New Rochelle. It was opposed by the defendants upon various grounds; but the only one we deem it necessary to discuss is that the plaintiff, as a foreign corporation, had received its only powers through a special act of the legislature of this state (Chapter 195 of the Laws of 1846) and that they were long since exhausted. The argument is made upon the…