Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. County Court of Davidson
Tennessee Supreme Court
ITIOM SUMNEIt, WHITE AND DAVIDSON. These several cases from the counties of Davidson, Sumner and White, involving analogous principles arising under the several acts of the legislature, authorizing and regulating county subscriptions to railroads, were submitted to this court, and argued and considered together.
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ITIOM SUMNEIt, WHITE AND DAVIDSON. These several cases from the counties of Davidson, Sumner and White, involving analogous principles arising under the several acts of the legislature, authorizing and regulating county subscriptions to railroads, were submitted to this court, and argued and considered together. The county court of Davidson, upon the application of the Louisville & Nashville railroad company to take stock in their road, ordered the question to be submitted to the voters of the county, whether said county court should subscribe $300,000 to the capital stock of said company. In…
1Opinion of the CourtCaRuthbes, J.
The leading questions in these cases are the same, differing only in details and mode of proceeding. We will consider them together, pointing out the differences so far as may be necessary. They all originated under the acts of 1851-2, authorizing county subscriptions of stock in certain railroads. In each ease, the constitutionality of those acts is brought in question. In the two first, the proceeding is by petition to the circuit court for writs of mandamus to compel the county courts and their chairman to perform the duties required of them in the statutes; and in the other, by bill in…
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