Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Louisville Trust Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This was a bill in equity, filed April 9, 1890, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky, by the Louisville; New Albany and Chicago Railway Company, (hereafter called the New Albany Company,) described as “a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana,” against the Ohio Yalley Improvement and Contract Company, (hereafter called the construction…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This was a bill in equity, filed April 9, 1890, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky, by the Louisville; New Albany and Chicago Railway Company, (hereafter called the New Albany Company,) described as “a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana,” against the Ohio Yalley Improvement and Contract Company, (hereafter called the construction company,) the Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beattyville Railway Company, (hereafter called the Beattyville…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The plaintiff, the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Eailway Company, undoubtedly became a corporation of the State of Indiana in 1873 by its incorporation according to the general statute of 1865 of that State.
Whether it afterwards became a corporation of the State of Kentucky also was strongly contested at the bar, and depends upon the legal effect of the statute of Kentucky of 1880.
That statute (being the first statute of Kentucky affecting this corporation) is described indeed in its title, as well as in the title of the statute of 1882 amending it, as “ An act to incorporate ” this…
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