| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 790 pages
...common benefit therefrom, the corporation quoad hoc is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of...whom the like special franchises had been conferred." Although it was said in Davidson v. Hine, that " a municipal fire department is indistinguishable from... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 664 pages
...common benefit therefrom, the corporation quoad hoc is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of...whom the like special franchises had been conferred." In San Francisco Gas Company v. San Francisco, 9 Cal., 433, it is held that in providing light for... | |
| Murray Hoffman - New York (N.Y.) - 1853 - 456 pages
...common benefit therefrom, the Corporation, so far, is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of...whom the like special franchises had been conferred. It is upon the like distinction that municipal corporations, in their private character as owners and... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 714 pages
...defendants quoad hoc were to be regarded as a private company." He says : i: It [the corporation] stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of persons upon whom the like special franchise had been conferred," and cites a large number of authorities on the point. This decision... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1867 - 732 pages
...respect to the powers conferred by these laws, is to be regarded as a private corporation, standing on the same footing as would any individual or body of persons upon whom like privileges had been conferred. Or, in the language of the court in Bailey v. The JUayor, Łe.,... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...benefit therefrom, the corporation quo ad hoc is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of...persons upon whom the like special franchises had been conferred.1 " Suppose the legislature, instead of the franchise in question, had conferred upon the... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 922 pages
...common benefit therefrom, the corporation quoad hac is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of...whom the like special franchises had been conferred." In that case, the plaintiff sued for the negligent construction of a dam across the Croton river by... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...beneftt therefrom, the corporation quo ad hoc is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of...persons upon whom the like special franchises had been conferred.i " Suppose the legislature, instead of the franchise in question, had conferred upon the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 748 pages
...public may derive a common benefit therefrom, the corporation, quoad hoc, stands on the same footing as any .individual or body of persons upon whom the like special franchises have been conferred. Trustees of Dartmouth College v/ Woodward, supra; Philips v. Berry, 1 Ld. Raym.... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1878 - 1032 pages
...benefit therefrom, the corporation quo ad hoc is to be regarded as a private company. It stands on the same footing as would any individual or body of...whom the like special franchises had been conferred. 1 " Suppose the legislature, instead of the franchise in question, had conferred upon the defendants... | |
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