Southern Ry. Co. v. Bouknight
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina. The Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad Company was incorporated hy the slates of North Carolina and South Carolina, and the Columbia & Augusta Railroad Company hy the states of South Carolina and Georgia.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina. The Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad Company was incorporated hy the slates of North Carolina and South Carolina, and the Columbia & Augusta Railroad Company hy the states of South Carolina and Georgia. These companies were consolidated under the name of the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad Company, In accordance with an act of the general assembly of South Carolina approved March 19, 1809, which provided: “That the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad Company and the Columbia, and Augusta…
1Opinion of the CourtPuller, Circuit Justice
(áfter stating' the facts). The main track of the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad Company, extending from the city of Augusta, in the state of Georgia, to the city of Charlotte, in the state of North Carolina, its other tracks, its bridges, depots, workshops, and other buildings, its rolling stock, equipment, and right of way, and its corporate rights and franchises, were sold to the Southern Railway Company as a unit, under a decree which provided that the purchaser at said sale should, as part of the consideration for tho sale, pay off and satisfy all claims held and adjudged by the…
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