Piper v. Rhodes

This was a proceeding to enjoin the collection of an assessment for tho construction of a gravel road, mado under the act of March 11th, 1807. There was an attempt to organize the company under the act of May 12th, 1852. That statute provides “that any number of persons may form themselves into a corporation for the purpose of constructing or owning plank, macadamized, gravel, clay and dirt roads, by complying with the following requirements: They shall unite in articles of association, setting forth the name which they assume, the line of the route, aud the place to and from which it is…