State ex rel. Security Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Brodigan
Nevada Supreme Court
Original proceeding. Application for a writ of mandamus by the State of Nevada, on the relation of the Security Savings and Loan Association, against George Brodigan, as Secretary of State of the State of Nevada.
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Original proceeding. Application for a writ of mandamus by the State of Nevada, on the relation of the Security Savings and Loan Association, against George Brodigan, as Secretary of State of the State of Nevada. Two questions are presented for determination in this proceeding: Is the power of amendment conferred in general terms upon all corporations, applicable to petitioner? If so, is the bank examiner’s power to approve or disapprove original articles of incorporation extended, by implication, over relator’s proposed amendments? The first proposition is sustained by the plain provisions…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sanders, J.:
This is a hearing upon a show-cause order issued out of this court, directed to the secretary of state, commanding him to show cause, if any he had, why the writ of mandamus should not issue to compel him to file in *215his office an instrument or document which purports upon its face to be an amended certificate of incorporation of the Security Savings and Loan Association, a domestic corporation organized under the general corporation law of this state. The answer of respondent, though not so worded, is to the effect that the proposed amendment was an ultra vires act;…
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