Cumberland Gaslight Co. v. West Virginia & Maryland Gas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Goff, Circuit Judge, dissenting. In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Action at law by the Cumberland Gaslight Company against the West Virginia & Maryland Gas Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
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Goff, Circuit Judge, dissenting. In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Action at law by the Cumberland Gaslight Company against the West Virginia & Maryland Gas Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. The plaintiff in error filed its original and amended declaration in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, alleging itself to have been incorporated by a special act I of the Legislature of Maryland, whereby it was fully and legally empowered to lay gas pipes in and along any of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDayton, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The plaintiff corporation was duly incorporated under a special act of the Maryland Legislature of 1853 (chapter 221), section 6 of which provides :
“That the president and directors shall have full power and authority to purchase or lease property, and to erect thereon the necessary buildings and •works of the said company, and shall have power to manufacture gas of any material they may think best, and to dispose of the same for the lighting of the city of Cumberland, or the streets thereof, or any buildings, manufac-tories, or houses therein situated, and…
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