State ex rel. Citizens of Wilson County v. Lebanon & Nashville Turnpike Co.

This suit was brought in the name of the state of Tennessee, by Hon. Ridley Mitchell, the district attorney general, on the relation of five citizens of Wilson county, against the Lebanon & Nashville Turnpike Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this State.

The original bill, on account of various matters stated therein, sought a forfeiture of the charter of the defendant company, and, in the event that relief was denied, asked that the defendant be restrained from maintaining more than three toll gates on the turnpike now operated by it, prayed that the defendant be required to…