Attorney General v. Merchants & Mechanics Trust Co.

We adopt the opinion of the trial judge:

“This is a quo warranto proceeding instituted by the attorney general, challenging the right of the defendant company to use the words ‘Trust Company’ in its name. Said defendant was incorporated under Act No. 191 of 1877 (2 Comp. Laws 1915, § 7950 et seq.); its articles being recorded with the secretary of State under date of March 10,1927. It is the claim of the attorney general, as set forth in the information, that defendant is prohibited by the express terms of Act No. 210 of 1917 from using the words referred to as a part of its name, and that…