CORPORATIONS 899

An. Code, 1924, sec. 246. 1912, sec. 309. 1904, sec. 289. 1888, sec. 200. 1838, ch. 244, sec. 2.

248. The damages claimed under section 246 of this article, shall be
sued for in the county or city where the injuries shall have been done; and
a summons served upon the president or any of the directors or conductors
of any of said companies shall be considered proper service upon the cor-
poration ; provided, said service shall be made at least twenty days before
the return day of the writ.

This section referred to in deciding that a turnpike company might be sued in the
county where its road is located, where its operations are carried on and where it
exercises its corporate powers, although its principal office is elsewhere. Baltimore, etc.,
Turnpike Co. v. Crowther, 63 Md. 572.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 247. 1912, sec. 310. 1904, sec. 290. 1888, sec. 201. 1838, ch. 244, sec. 2.

249. If the company summoned shall not appear to answer at the time
named in the summons, on the return of two summons served as aforesaid,
the court or justice shall proceed to enter up judgment against said cor-
poration as if the said corporation had regularly appeared; but such judg-
ment shall not be rendered until affidavit shall be filed showing the name
of the president, director or conductor on whom said service was made and
the day of said service; and any property belonging to the corporation shall
be liable to execution for the amount of such judgment.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 248. 1912, sec. 311. 1904, sec. 291. 1888, sec. 202. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 217.

250. No railroad or mining company formed or organized under any
of the provisions of this article, or which has organized under any existing
laws, charter or act of the general assembly of this State, shall own, con-
duct or carry on any store, or have any interest in any store, or receive any
portion of the profits thereof; but nothing herein contained shall prevent
the employees of any corporation from forming co-operative stores.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 249. 1912, sec. 312. 1904, sec. 292. 1888, see. 203. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 218..

251. Any railroad company incorporated under the laws of this State
may own and operate any line of steamships or steamboats, or may sub-
scribe to or hold the stock of any company owning and operating such
steamships or steamboats, where such steamships and steamboats can be used
wholly or in part in connection with the business of said railroad company.

The gross receipts derived by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company from
steamboat or steamship lines owned in pursuance of this section, held taxable, although
other property and franchises and receipts therefrom, were exempt under such com-
pany's charter. State v. B. & O. R. R. Co., 48 Md. 79.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 251. 1912, sec. 314. 1904, sec. 294. 1904, ch. 620, sec. 204A.

252. Every railroad company incorporated under the laws of this State
shall have the right, wherever it considers that the crossing of its tracks
by a public highway is dangerous, to provide at its own cost and expense
that the said public highway shall be carried across its tracks either over-
head by a bridge or under said tracks by a tunnel, and in order to construct
such new crossing said railroad company is empowered to exercise the
powers of condemnation vested in it for the purpose of acquiring such ad-
ditional property and rights as it may require to construct the same. The
bridge which said railroad company shall construct for an overhead cross-
ing or the tunnel for the undergrade crossing shall be at least twenty feet
wide, and the height of said tunnel from the surface of the roadway through