Gray v. Monongahela Navigation Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. The President, Managers, and Company of the Monongahela Navigation Company against James Gray. This was an action on the case.
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ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. The President, Managers, and Company of the Monongahela Navigation Company against James Gray. This was an action on the case. The declaration claimed from the defendant two instalments of five dollars each on twenty shares of stock, subscribed by him on the books of the Monongahela Navigation Company; setting forth that on the 27th day of July 1836, books were provided (in which defendant subscribed twenty shares) in conformity to an Act of Assembly, entitled, “ An Act to authorize the governor to incorporate a company to make a lock…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
It has long been settled by decision and practice, that the copy of the laws published annually by the authority of the legislature, is evidence of the statutes contained in it, whether they be public or private; and this disposes of the first bill of exceptions to evidence.
The second brings up the only material point in the cause; but the exception cannot be sustained. A grant of additional privi*160leges to a corporation, has certainly not been thought an invasion of the contract which exists between it and subscribers to its stock. It is…
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