State v. Turnpike Co.

This was a bill in the name of the State, by certain relators, asking a decree of forfeiture of the charter of the defendant corporation. Subsequently it was dismissed by the chancellor on petition of the attorney-general asking such order upon the ground that neither-the public welfare nor the interests of the State of Tennessee required a further prosecution of the suit or the-forfeiture of defendant’s charter. This action, of the chancellor is called in question by the relators, who have brought this case to this court by appeal.

This suit was instituted under the authority of subsection 4…