Attorney General v. Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad

This is an application by the Attorney General for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto against the Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad Company. Notice was given to the respondent, and it has been heard in opposition to the application. The Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad Company was chartered by an act of the territorial legislature of Michigan, approved April 22, 1833 (3 Terr. L. 1125). The charter was perpetual, but was amended in 1816 so as to authorize the Legislature at any time to alter, amend or repeal it.

As originally granted, the charter authorized the company to construct a…