...Company. The articles declared that the object of the association was to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property, from the city of Chillicothe, in the county of Livingston and State of Missouri, to such point on the...

...objects. SECTION 1. Any number of persons, not less than ten, a majority of whom shall be inhabitants of this State, may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating in any foreign country a railroad or railroads for public use in the conveyance of persons...

...made a corporation by the name of the Union Freight Railroad Company, for the purpose of locating, constructing, maintaining, and operating, a railroad, for public use in the conveyance of freight only, with convenient single or double tracks, between the terminal points of the several steam...

...made a corporation by the name of the Union Freight Railroad Company, for the purpose of locating, constructing, maintaining, and operating, a railroad, for public use in the conveyance of freight only, with convenient single or double tracks, between the terminal points of the several steam...

...general railroad act of 1850. The articles of association declare that the company is organized for the purpose of "constructing, maintaining, and operating a railroad for public use in transporting persons and property, of the gauge of not more than three feet and six inches, and not...

...organization of com• " General Railroad Law. \ " SECTION 1. Any number of persons not less than twenty-five may form a company for the purpose of constructing,...public use in the conveyance of persons and property. "SEC. 2. The persons forming such railroad company shall make and sign articles of association, in...

...railroad legislation. The first section confers on companies organized under its provisions the power "of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad...public use in the conveyance of persons and property" between the places from and to which the road is to be constructed. The ninth section gives the power...

...abstract of its bill, wherein It avers "that said Union Railroad is not a bona flde corporation engaged in operating a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property, but Is a scheme or device of the defendants for the operation under the guise of a railroad charter...

...its first section that any number of persons not less than seven, a majority of whom shall reside in this state, may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating waterworks in any city, town, or village in this state having a population of not more than...

...incorporated in said charter." The charter of the appellee authorizes it to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property. The road cannot be operated nor its franchises exercised without motive power ; but nothing is stated...