State ex rel. Weir v. Dawson

Information against the defendants, charging ■ that they are pretending to be a corporation, and, to act as such, when they are not a corporation. It charges that in January, 1849, the Legislature of the State of Indiana enacted a special charter of incorporation, (which is set out at length,) for a railroad from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Jeffersonville, to be called the Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad', that the persons named in the charter as directors did not accept said charter till June 2, 1852, when they did meet and accept the same, and organize under it. It is alleged that the…