Tennessee Supreme Court February 22, 1896 (Parker v. Bethel Hotel Co.)

J. C. Bradeord, Sp. J.

On May 24, 1880, P. C. Bethel, W. D. Bethel, Lucius Frierson, Eugene Pillow, J. M. Mayes, and L. W. Black became incorporated, under the laws of the State of Tennessee, as the Bethel' Hotel Company. The business of this corporation, as ■ declared in its charter, was the erection, furnishing, and operation of a hotel in the town of Columbia, Tenn.