First National Bank v. Almy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a promissory note for $1300, signed by “ The Salem and New York Express Steamship Corporation by J. H. Webb, Trs.,” payable to the order of the corporation three months after date, and indorsed to the plaintiff.
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Contract upon a promissory note for $1300, signed by “ The Salem and New York Express Steamship Corporation by J. H. Webb, Trs.,” payable to the order of the corporation three months after date, and indorsed to the plaintiff. The case was heard in this court upon the following agreed facts: On May 31, 1871, John Daland, Walworth S. Crane, Willard P. Phillips, Charles H. Price and others, associated themselves together, by an agreement in writing, with the intention of organizing a corporation under the St. of 1870, e. 224, to be established at Salem, for the purpose of doing business as a…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The defendants having associated themselves together by an agreement in writing, setting forth their intention to constitute a corporation, the name, purpose and location thereof, the amount of its capital stock, and the number and par value of its shares ; the officers, chosen at a meeting duly called for the purpose, having submitted to the commissioner of corporations a certificate setting forth a true copy of that agreement and the date of that meeting, together with the records of the corporation ; and that certificate having been approved by the commissioner and filed in the office of…
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