Attorney General v. Joy

The information in this case charges th'e respondents with claiming and usurping the corporate right, liberty, privilege and franchise known and called “ The Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company,” claiming to be organized and incorporated under some act or acts of the territory of Michigan, or of the State of Michigan, without being in fact so organized and incorporated, and also the corporate franchises, liberties and privileges of keeping, maintaining and. operating a railroad extending westward from Pontiac to Grand Haven, and that of levying and receiving tolls and fares from…