Bellona Company's Case
High Court of Chancery of Maryland
This bill was filed in Baltimore County Court on the 25th of August, 1831, by The Bellona Gunpowder Company of Maryland, against The Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road Company.
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This bill was filed in Baltimore County Court on the 25th of August, 1831, by The Bellona Gunpowder Company of Maryland, against The Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road Company. The bill states, that the plaintiffs are a body politic existing as such under the acts of 1814, ch. 78, and 1824, ch. 32; that the objects of their incorporation were the manufacturing and vending of gunpowder, and the carrying on of any other branches of manufacture in their discretion; for which purpose they were authorized to purchase and hold lands, in fee simple or otherwise, not exceeding one thousand acres,…
1Opinion of the Court
Kell, Associate Judge.
Let injunction issue as prayed; to be dissolved on the 5th of September on motion therefor; unless the complainants satisfy the court, by affidavits, which they are hereby authorized to take before a justice of the peace, that the rail road can be located as suggested by complainants, or the same be admitted by the answers of the defendants. The affidavits to be taken upon two days notice to the opposite party or their solicitor.
Under this order the depositions of several witnesses were taken, returned, and filed. And on the 14th of September, 1831, the defendants put in…
2Cited by1 opinion
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