Michigan Female Seminary v. Secretary of State

The relator was organized in 1858, under the provisions of Act No. 39, Laws 1855. Its corporate existence ended, under the laws as they then stood, in 1888. The attention of the corporation was not called until recently to the fact that its corporate existence ivas ended.' Since its original organization expired, it has been a corporation de facto, and has done business as though its corporate-existence had been properly and legally extended. When it learned the situation, it took such action to extend its corporate existence as it deemed necessary to comply with the provisions of section 10…