Yellow River Improvement Co. v. Wood County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wood County. This is a bill in equity to restrain tbe sale of five separate forty-acre tracts of land in Richfield, Wood county, for taxes levied in the year 1887, on several grounds mentioned in the complaint, which, among other things, in effect alleged the incorporation and organization of the plaintiff under the laws of this state for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Yellow river in Wood and Juneau counties, having its…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wood County. This is a bill in equity to restrain tbe sale of five separate forty-acre tracts of land in Richfield, Wood county, for taxes levied in the year 1887, on several grounds mentioned in the complaint, which, among other things, in effect alleged the incorporation and organization of the plaintiff under the laws of this state for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Yellow river in Wood and Juneau counties, having its office and chief place of business at Ne-cedah, Juneau county; that in carrying out the object of its incorporation it…
1Opinion of the CourtCassodat, J.
The plaintiff was incorporated and organized under ch. 170, P. & L. Laws of 1857, with a capital stock of $20,000. By that act the corporators therein named were created a body corporate and politic by the name and style mentioned, “ with perpetual succession to them and their successors and associates.” . Such corporation was thereby authorized and empowered, with certain limitations, among other things, to purchase, hold, sell, and convey real estate for the use of the company; to make, ordain, establish, and alter, at pleasure, rules and by-laws for the government of themselves, their…
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