Niemeyer v. Little Rock Junction Railway
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. David W. Carroll, Chancellor. The right of property, and its quiet enjoyment are higher than any Constitutional sanction. It is subject only to the taxing power and the State’s right of Eminent Domain. These powers must be legally and Constitutionally exercised.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. David W. Carroll, Chancellor. The right of property, and its quiet enjoyment are higher than any Constitutional sanction. It is subject only to the taxing power and the State’s right of Eminent Domain. These powers must be legally and Constitutionally exercised. Const., Art. 11, Sec. 22. No one can be compelled to part with his property. 60 Maine, 290. The statute only makes articles of incorporation presumptive evidence and hence may be enquired into by the courts. A corporation conceived and created for fraudulent purposes is amenable to two classes…
1Opinion of the CourtEakin, J.
Appellants own a half block of ground in Little Rock, lying on the North side of an alley dividing the block, and consisting of lots numbered from 1 to 6, inclusive. It has, along its river front on the North side of the block, a railway track, being part of the line of the defendant Company, the “ Little Eock, Miss. Eiver & Texas Eailway.” Upon the opposite side of the Arkansas Eiver, the line of the defendant Company, the “Little Eock & Fort Smith Eailroad Company,” comes in to its Eastern terminus at the town oí Argenta. Up . to the time of the proceedings involved in this suit there had…
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