Attorney General ex rel. Nelson v. McArthur

This is an information in the nature of quo warranto against the defendants alleging their assumption to act as a corporation by the name and title of “The Cheboygan Slack Water Navigation Company,” and that in so doing they usurp the franchise of being a corporation.

The defendants plead actual incorporation on the nineteenth of April, 1867, under the act entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of slack water navigation companies, for the improvement of rivers in the counties of St. Joseph, Cass, Berrien and Cheboygan and defining their powers and duties.” Approved March 25, 1867 (2…