People v. President
New York Supreme Court
On information in nature of a quo warranto. The information was filed at the same time, and was in the same words, mutatis mutandis, as those in the two preceding cases of The People v. The Bank of Niagara, and The Same v. The Bank of Washington & Warren, (ante, 196, 211.) The particulars in which the subsequent pleadings differ, will be found stated in the opinion of the court, where a summary of all the pleadings is given, sufficiently full to render any statement of them…
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On information in nature of a quo warranto. The information was filed at the same time, and was in the same words, mutatis mutandis, as those in the two preceding cases of The People v. The Bank of Niagara, and The Same v. The Bank of Washington & Warren, (ante, 196, 211.) The particulars in which the subsequent pleadings differ, will be found stated in the opinion of the court, where a summary of all the pleadings is given, sufficiently full to render any statement of them here unnecessary. It will be there seen, that the defendants demurred specially to one of the replications interposed by…
1Opinion of the Court
*218 Curia, per
Woodworth, J.
This is an information in nature of a quo warranto. The defendants plead, that by an act passed March 25, 1808, they were incorporated as a ; which act was subsequently continued in force until the 1st Tuesday of June, 1832; that by. virtue of these acts, they are a body corporate, and entitled to do all lawful acts allowed by the statutes of incorporation; concluding with a traverse of the usurpation alleged in the information.
The plaintiffs reply, that on the 1st of August, 1819, the debts of the corporation over and above the specie then actually deposited, exceeded…
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