Morrison v. Cook
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for mandamus. Before Judge Pendleton. Pulton superior court. January 31, 1916. Application was duly made to the Secretary of State, under the Civil Code, §§ 2577-2597, for charter of a corporation to be called North Georgia Mineral Railroad Company. The proposed route of the railroad extended from Atlanta in a northwest direction, a distance of about fifty miles, to a place called “Warford Crossroads,” near the town of Cartersville in Bartow County, Georgia.
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Petition for mandamus. Before Judge Pendleton. Pulton superior court. January 31, 1916. Application was duly made to the Secretary of State, under the Civil Code, §§ 2577-2597, for charter of a corporation to be called North Georgia Mineral Railroad Company. The proposed route of the railroad extended from Atlanta in a northwest direction, a distance of about fifty miles, to a place called “Warford Crossroads,” near the town of Cartersville in Bartow County, Georgia. The Western and Atlantic Railroad, owned by the State of Georgia, extends from Chattanooga, Tenn., via Cartersville, to…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
1. It is contended that the words, “or that will depreciate the value of the said Western & Atlantic Bailway,” as embodied in the act of 1915, are not included in the caption, and' that the inclusion of them in the body is violative of art. 3, section 1, par. 8, of the constitution of Georgia (Civil Code, § 6437), which inhibits the inclusion in the body of an act of matter that is not covered by the caption. The caption contemplates the enactment of a law for the protection of the Western & Atlantic Bail-road as against competing lines to be constructed by private companies. The caption does…
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