 | 1924 - 1636 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with the state, and is void аз against public policy."* For the purposes of the application of the doctrine the lessee .is regarded... | |
 | George Folger Canfield, Isaac Maurice Wormser - Corporation law - 1925 - 960 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with the state, and is void as against public policy. This doctrine is asserted with remarkable clearness in the opinion of this court, delivered by Mr.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1048 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with...the state, and is void as against public policy." In Greenhood on Public Policy, p. 316, it is stated: "Any contract which will disable a public or quasi... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 952 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes — is a violation of the contract...with the state, and is void as against public policy. This doctrine is asserted with remarkable clearness in the opinion of this court, delivered by Mr.... | |
 | Young Berryman Smith, Noel Thomas Dowling - Public utilities - 1926 - 1310 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes — is a violation of the contract...the state, and is void as against public policy." In City of St. Louis v. Gas-Light Co., supra [70 Mo. 69], the charter of the gas company gave it the... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 824 pages
...the public-grant any contract which disables the corporation from performing those functions * * * is a violation of the contract with the State, and is void as against public policy." A leading case on the subject is Northern Pacific R. Co. v. Smith, 171 US 260, 43 L. Ed. 157. The authorities... | |
 | Law - 1882 - 542 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with...the •State, and is void as against public policy." This proposition is supported by the cases there cited, And by many others. See Richardson v. Sibley,... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson, Joseph Wesley Thompson - Corporation law - 1927 - 1048 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with the state, and is void as against public policy."25 The same court held absolutely void a lease and transfer by one corporation to another corporation... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 546 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with the State, and is void against public policy. This doctrine is asserted with remarkable clearness in the opinion of this court,... | |
 | Railroad Commission of Wisconsin - Railroad law - 1908 - 892 pages
...to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with...the state, and is void as against public policy." Thomas v. Railroad Co. 101 US 71, 83. Such a contract being void as against public policy, the courts,... | |
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... functions being the consideration of the public grant, any contract which disables the corporation from performing those functions, which undertakes, without the consent of the State, to transfer to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter,... 
