I agree. This is a very nice surprise.
The idea that any entity besides individual people has rights has no basis in objective reality.
It is a legal fiction, based on a cluster of metaphors that are not appropriate for Equal Protection consideration.
Expect the Wall St. Money Power to go berserk and throw a fit over this.
The typical CANAL COMPANY not only had limited liability it had MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY and could collect taxes.
Many of the early canal companies still exist. Their states may have had governmental bankruptcies on account of the failure of those companies to foster the commerce everyone expected, but the companies themselves continued to exist.
One of them in the vicinity of Crawfordsville, Indiana RENTS LAND to individuals who build houses and other buildings on it. These properties are exempt from all local property taxes. They exist separate and apart from the city, town, township and county government system of the state. A good deal all around if you want to avoid property taxes ~ and BTW, those rents are very low.
The canal company laws pretty much paralleled their European models ~ and so on all the way back to Hammurabi's time.
BTW, many of the immunities normally included in the chartering of a canal company were NOT provided to the railroads hence the need for a series of trips to and from the various state courts and the Supreme Court. If a clerk annotated a ruling with a reference to "this and that" it was probably nothing more than an extract of nearly the same "this and that" already contained in a state enabling act for a canal company.
You would have to cancel the right to assemble first.
Take this up with the Chicoms eh!