This case comes before us on a writ of error to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
The appellants filed their bill in the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond Circuit, setting forth that, on the 25th of February, 1834, the General Assembly of Virginia passed an act entitled "An act to incorporate the stockholders of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac...
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