State ex rel. Long v. Brownstown & River Valley Gravel Road Co.

This action is prosecuted by the State on the relation of Daniel H. Long, prosecuting attorney, and the object is to secure the forfeiture of the charter of the appellee. It is charged in the information that articles of association were filed in the proper recorder’s office in March, 1875; that possession was taken of a public highway leading from Brownstown for a distance of nine miles, and that the appellee assumed and undertook in its articles of association-to construct a gravel road for, that distance. It is averred that the company has completed only six miles of the road, and, instead…