State ex rel. McGhee v. Walters
State ex rel. McGhee v. Walters
Opinion of the Court
This day this cause came on to be heard upon the petition of the relator, the joint answer of .Charles W. Walters and The Cleveland Stone Company, the reply of relator thereto, and the evidence, and was argued by counsel. And the court being fully advised in the premises find that a railway corporation has been organized under the laws of Ohio to take over and operate as a common carrier that portion of the tracks formerly owned by The Marietta, Columbus & Cleveland Railroad Company lying between Vincent, Ohio, and Moore’s Junction, Qhio, in accordance with the prayer and demand of relator’s petition, and that for that reason all questions touching the right or authority of said defendants or either of them to operate that portion of said railroad as an industrial branch is eliminated from the consideration of this court in this case.
The court further find that the nonanswering defendants Robert Grant and Harris Brothers are mere nominal defendants, and for the reasons aforesaid, the petition of relator is dismissed and defendants discharged without day.
Writ denied.
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