Harris v. Mississippi Valley & Ship Island Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. George F. Brown, Judge. This was a petition in the nature of a quo warranto, against the Mississippi Yalley & Ship Island Railroad Company, on the following grounds, to wit: 1. A failure to prepare and file in the office of the secretary of state a map of its proposed line, as required by the charter of incorporation. 2. Commencing at Yicksburg and running south, contrary to the requirements of the charter. 3. A failure to…
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Error to the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. George F. Brown, Judge. This was a petition in the nature of a quo warranto, against the Mississippi Yalley & Ship Island Railroad Company, on the following grounds, to wit: 1. A failure to prepare and file in the office of the secretary of state a map of its proposed line, as required by the charter of incorporation. 2. Commencing at Yicksburg and running south, contrary to the requirements of the charter. 3. A failure to organize the company under the amended charter. 4. For the misapplication and the misappropriation of the money loaned to…
1Opinion of the CourtSimrall, J.
An information, by quo warranto, was brought by the attorney general against the defendant, a railroad corporation, to obtain a judicial forfeiture, on assumption by the state of the franchises and corporate privileges granted to the defendant. Several grounds are stated:
First. That by the second amendatory act of the original charter, approved the 18th April, 1873, the defendant was required within twelve months thereafter, to cause to be prepared, and file *604in the office of the secretary of state, a map of the proposed line of railroad, certified by the chief engineer, “ which shall be taken…
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