Thrasher v. Pike County Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of assumpsit- in the Circuit Court of Pike county, by the Pike County Railroad Company, appellee, against Charles Thrasher, the appellant, upon the following agreement : We, the undersigned, agree to subscribe to the stock of the Pike County Railroad, the sums set against our names, when the books may be opened for subscription.
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This was an action of assumpsit- in the Circuit Court of Pike county, by the Pike County Railroad Company, appellee, against Charles Thrasher, the appellant, upon the following agreement : We, the undersigned, agree to subscribe to the stock of the Pike County Railroad, the sums set against our names, when the books may be opened for subscription. Griggsville, March 19th, 1856. Charles Thrasher..........................................$3,000 The first count of the declaration was as follows: For that whereas, heretofore, to wit, on the nineteenth day of March, A. D. 1856, at Griggsville, to…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
The appellee, who was plaintiff in the court below, urges several reasons justifying a recovery in this case, which it is necessary to notice. The declaration contains a special count, averring, that on the nineteenth of March, 1856, the plaintiffs were a body politic and corporate,' with power to construct and operate a railroad within the county of Pike, and authorized by law, as such corporation, to secure subscriptions to the capital stock of the company to the amount of one million of dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, and, desiring to ascertain what amount of stock would be…
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