North Missouri Railroad v. Maguire
Supreme Court of the United States
Error todhe Supreme Ooürt of .Missouri, the case being thus: The North Missouri Rail road-Company was'incorpora.ted .by act of the legislature- of Missouri, March 3d, 1851. By .an act of January 7th, 1853, its charter was thus amended: “The capital stock,.together ’ivith all machines, wagons, cars, engines, or carriages belonging to the.company, together with all their works or .other property, ijm’d all profits which shall 'arise from the same, shall be vested in.the…
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Error todhe Supreme Ooürt of .Missouri, the case being thus: The North Missouri Rail road-Company was'incorpora.ted .by act of the legislature- of Missouri, March 3d, 1851. By .an act of January 7th, 1853, its charter was thus amended: “The capital stock,.together ’ivith all machines, wagons, cars, engines, or carriages belonging to the.company, together with all their works or .other property, ijm’d all profits which shall 'arise from the same, shall be vested in.the respective shareholders of the Company forever, in proportion to their r'espiective shares, and the same shall’ be deemed…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Much discussion of the evidence i^u the case will be unnecessary, as the principal facts are embodied in an agreed-statement, which is made a part of the record.
By the agreed statement it appears that the plaintiff company is a corporation established by the laws of the State, and that the other plaintiff claims to be the legal owner of all the property lately owned by ¿he corporation. Said company was. incorporated on the third of March, .1851,'with a capital stock of six millions of dollars divided into shares of one hundred-dollars each.
Pecuniary aid iji large-amounts was furnished to the…
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