Millard v. St. Francis Xavier Female Academy
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gaby, Judge, presiding. This case was as follows: on the 10th day of October, 1876, “The St. Francis Xavier Female Academy, of Chicago, Illinois, ” an educational institution incorporated under a special act of the General Assembly, borrowed of the German National bank of Chicago the sum of $31,000, and for the sum of 10,000 of said‘loan, executed its promissory note, payable to its own order three years after…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gaby, Judge, presiding. This case was as follows: on the 10th day of October, 1876, “The St. Francis Xavier Female Academy, of Chicago, Illinois, ” an educational institution incorporated under a special act of the General Assembly, borrowed of the German National bank of Chicago the sum of $31,000, and for the sum of 10,000 of said‘loan, executed its promissory note, payable to its own order three years after date, with interest at the rate of nine per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, and after indorsing the same in…
1Opinion of the CourtBailet, J.
The principal controversy in this case, arises upon the first ground specified in the motion to vacate the judgment, viz: that the defendant had no power to execute the note sued on. The other grounds may be disposed of in a few words.
The second, viz: that the defendant was not served with process as required by law, is an attempt to apply to this case the provisions of the fourth section of the defendant’s charter prescribing special rules for the service of process on the corporation.
Whether those provisions are to be regarded as still in force or not, we fail to perceive how any question…
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