State v. Merchant

In this action the state instituted a prosecution against the defendant Merchant, under and by virtue of a statute passed in 1903, the act being found in chapter 93, page 141, Laws of 1903. The act consists of but one section and is as follows:

“Any superintendent, director, secretary, manager, agent, or other officer of any corporation formed or existing under the laws of this state, or transacting business in this state, or any person pretending or holding himself out as such superintendent, director, secretary, manager, agent, or other officer, who shall wilfully subscribe, sign, indorse,…