Ex parte Brown

Petitioner is a stockholder of The Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad Company of Alabama; and his petition, and the exhibits thereto, represent that there was a corporation of “the same name in Mississippi, and another of the same name in Tennessee; that proceedings were taken in March, 1871, by persons claiming authority to do so, to consolidate the three companies into one; which proceedings were legally ineffectual and invalid; that certain persons, who were at that time elected and appointed to constitute and be a board of directors and president and other officers of the consolidated…