Banet v. Alton & Sangamon Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
The appellees bring suit to recover of the appellant á certain amount of the appellant’s subscription for the stock of the appellees, and file their declaration, setting out that six persons therein named, and their associates, successors, and assigns, were created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the Alton and Sangamon Railroad Company; that the plaintiffs were and are the said body corporate and politic, and that on the day of , A. D. 1849, at the…
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The appellees bring suit to recover of the appellant á certain amount of the appellant’s subscription for the stock of the appellees, and file their declaration, setting out that six persons therein named, and their associates, successors, and assigns, were created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the Alton and Sangamon Railroad Company; that the plaintiffs were and are the said body corporate and politic, and that on the day of , A. D. 1849, at the comity of Sangamon, a subscription book was opened, in pursuance of the charter, which book contained an article in…
1Opinion of the CourtTreat, C. J.
On the 27th of February, 1847, the legislature passed “ An act to construct a railroad from Alton, in Madison county, to Springfield, in Sangamon county.” The 1st section provides, “ that Robert Ferguson, Simeon Ryder, Benjamin Godfrey, Thomas Clifford, Robert Dunlap, and William Martin, and their .associates, successors, and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of ‘ The Alton and Sangamon Railroad Company,’ for the term of thirty years, and by that name be, and they are hereby, made capable in law and in equity to sue and be sued, plead and be…
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