Champion v. Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court of Tishemingo county. Hon. P. T. Scruggs, judge. Cited Hester v. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company, 32 Miss. R. 378.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This suit was brought in the Circuit Court of Tishemingo, to recover the amount of certain calls upon stock in the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company, alleged to have been subscribed for, by the plaintiff in error.
The answer of the defendant in the court below, alleged, in substance, that the act of the legislature incorporating said company within the State of Mississippi, and by which it acquired the right of way through the State, was upon the express condition, that the company should begin their road at some point on the northern boundary of the State of Mississippi, and run from…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hester v. Memphis & Charleston RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1856
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