State ex rel. Allison v. Hannibal & Ralls County Gravel Road Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pike Circuit Court. — Hon. Reuben F. Roy, Judge. (1) The Hannibal, Ralls County & Paris Plank Road Company was incorporated under an “Act to authorize the formation of associations to construct plank roads and macadamized roads.”- Session Acts 1851, page 259. (2) When the Hannibal, Ralls County & Paris Plank Road Company appropriated and located its plank road on that part of the old county and State road lying in Ralls county, now in controversy, and the Ralls…
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Appeal from Pike Circuit Court. — Hon. Reuben F. Roy, Judge. (1) The Hannibal, Ralls County & Paris Plank Road Company was incorporated under an “Act to authorize the formation of associations to construct plank roads and macadamized roads.”- Session Acts 1851, page 259. (2) When the Hannibal, Ralls County & Paris Plank Road Company appropriated and located its plank road on that part of the old county and State road lying in Ralls county, now in controversy, and the Ralls county court consented such road “became the property of such company.” The word property is nomen generalissimum, and…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
On the fifth day of May, 1852, a corporation under the name of “Hannibal, Ralls County & Paris Plank Road Company” was organized and articles of incorporation filed with the recorder of deeds of Ralls county in pursuance of an act of the legislature of Missouri approved February 27, 1851. Laws of Mo. 1850, 1851, p. 259.
Section 2 of said act required that the articles of any corporation formed under said act should state “the term of years to which the existence of the association shall be limited, which shall not exceed thirty.” The articles of association of the “Hannibal, Ralls County &…
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