Railroad Company v. Harris
Supreme Court of the United States
Error, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the case being thus: On the 28th February, 1827, the State of Maryland incorporated a company known as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. It was, of course, a Maryland corporation, with capacity to sue and be sued, to take and condemn lands, subject to certain restrictions, and with the ordinary powers, rights, and privileges of corporations in that S'tate and elsewhere.
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Error, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the case being thus: On the 28th February, 1827, the State of Maryland incorporated a company known as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. It was, of course, a Maryland corporation, with capacity to sue and be sued, to take and condemn lands, subject to certain restrictions, and with the ordinary powers, rights, and privileges of corporations in that S'tate and elsewhere. The place where the board of directors was to meet was Baltimore. There its dividends from the company’s earnings were to be declared, and there was to be the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Harris sued the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for injuries which he received by a collision., The declaratiou sets out that the company is a corporation established by law by the name of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, having a legal and recognized existence within the limits of the District of Columbia and exercising there their corporate rights and privileges in the making of contracts and receiving freight and passengers for transportation upon their roads from the city of Washington to the Ohio River;…
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