State v. Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas Railway Co.

Walker, J.:

This is an action of assumpsit, commenced-in Pulaski Circuit Court, and decided at its May term, 1877, upon the following agreed statement of facts :

“ The Little Rock, Pine Bluff and New Orleans RaiLoad Company was duly incorporated under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, approved July 23, 1868, entitled 'An act to -provide for a general system of railroad incorporation.J ”

On the 10th day of March, 1869, the Little Rock, Pine Bluff and New Orleans Railroad Company, by its president, S. W. Mallory, addressed a communication to the Board of Railroad…