West Winsted Savings Bank & Building Ass'n v. Ford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition in equity. The West Winsted Savings Bank and Building Association was formed on the 19th of March, 1852, by the association of twenty-five persons, of whom the defendant was one, as a corporation, under the provisions of an act passed in the year 1850, entitled “ an act authorising the establishment of Savings Banks and Building Associations,” and was located at Winchester in Litchfield county.
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Petition in equity. The West Winsted Savings Bank and Building Association was formed on the 19th of March, 1852, by the association of twenty-five persons, of whom the defendant was one, as a corporation, under the provisions of an act passed in the year 1850, entitled “ an act authorising the establishment of Savings Banks and Building Associations,” and was located at Winchester in Litchfield county. All the provisions of the act were complied with except one in the fifth section, which required that a copy of the articles of association should be lodged with the town-clerk.* An attested…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
It appears that in March, 1852, the respondent, with twenty-five others, took measures to form a corporation in West Winsted, under the act of 1850 authorizing the establishment of Savings and Building Associations. The corporators <prepared and signed the articles of association, and caused a copy to be left with the clerk of the town, in all respects complete except that the names of the corporators were not appended. They commenced and ever since have continued’ to prosecute their business, (somewhat *288extensively,) under their corporate name, “ The West Winsted Savings Bank and Building…
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