Bound v. Wisconsin Central Railroad
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. This action was brought by the plaintiff in his own behalf, and in behalf of all others in like interest, against The Wis-<‘onsin Central Railroad Company, The Town of Plainfield, and others, to have a subscription by said town to the capital stock of said company adjudged void, and bonds of the town, issued in payment for said stock, cancelled.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. This action was brought by the plaintiff in his own behalf, and in behalf of all others in like interest, against The Wis-<‘onsin Central Railroad Company, The Town of Plainfield, and others, to have a subscription by said town to the capital stock of said company adjudged void, and bonds of the town, issued in payment for said stock, cancelled. About January 8, 1872, the defendant railroad company submitted to the Town of Plainfield the following proposition: “ The Wisconsin Central Railroad Compamj proposes to construct a line of railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
I. This action was brought in March, 1877, by the plaintiff, in his own behalf, and on behalf of all others similarly interested, as tax-payers, for the purpose of having adjudged void a subscription by the defendant Town of Plainfield to the capital stock of the defendant railway company, and to have the bonds of the town issued in payment of such capital stock declared void and canceled. The subscription to the stock was made under and by virtue of ch. 126, Laws of 1S69, as amended by ch. 31, Laws of 1871. The plaintiff insists that the subscription and bonds were void, because ch. 126 was…
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