Central Railroad v. Collins
Supreme Court of Georgia
Powers of Corporations. Injunction. Before Judge Cole. Chambers. Bibb county, November, 1869. Stephen Collins, as a stockholder in the Southwestern E. E. Company, and in the Atlantic and Gulf' E. E. Company, and as a citizen of the State of Georgia, and of the city of Macon, Peter Solomon and Jas.
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Powers of Corporations. Injunction. Before Judge Cole. Chambers. Bibb county, November, 1869. Stephen Collins, as a stockholder in the Southwestern E. E. Company, and in the Atlantic and Gulf' E. E. Company, and as a citizen of the State of Georgia, and of the city of Macon, Peter Solomon and Jas. A. Nisbet, trustees, in their own right, as citizens of the State of Georgia, and of the city of Macon, and as stockholders of the Southwestern E. E. Company, and George G. Hull, in his own right, as a citizen of the State of Georgia and stockholder of the Southwestern E. E. Company, and all, also…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCay, J.
This is a bill filed by certain stockholders in the Central Railroad, certain stockholders in the Southwestern Railroad, and certain other persons who claim to come before the Court as citizens of the State of Georgia, and as such to be interested in the relief sought by the bill.
The substance of the charges is, that the Central Railroad and Banking Company, and the Southwestern Railroad Company, the former chartered to build and maintain a Railroad from Savannah to Macon, and the latter chartered to build and maintain a Railroad from Macon to the Chattahoochee River, are about to purchase…
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