Smith v. Bangs
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was heard at March term, 1854, of the McHenry Circuit Court, by J. G. Wilson, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtTreat, C. J.
An act was passed on the 23d of June, 1852, incorporating The Northern Illinois Railroad Company,” with a capital of $1,000,000, to be divided into shares of $100, and with authority to construct a railroad from Chicago through McHenry county to the State line. It appointed Justus Bangs and fourteen others commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock, and required them to give thirty days’ notice of the time and place of receiving such subscriptions in some newspaper published in Woodstock and Chicago. It required them, as soon as $20,000 of the capital stock should be…
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