People Ex Rel. Blossom v. Nelson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third department, reversing an order made at Special Term, denying an application for a mandamus. (Reported below, 3 Lansing, 394; 10 Abb. Pr.
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Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third department, reversing an order made at Special Term, denying an application for a mandamus. (Reported below, 3 Lansing, 394; 10 Abb. Pr. U. S., 200.) A mandamus was applied for, to compel the defendant to file a certain certificate, for the incorporation of the “ Mutual Reliance Society,” on the claim, that it was within the “ Act for the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary societies,” passed 12th April, 1848, and the acts amendatory thereof. The certificate stated: “ That the object for…
1Per curiam
The act for the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary societies (chap. 319 of the Laws of 1848), authorizes any five or more persons, who shall desire to associate themselves “ for benevolent, charitable, literary,, scientific, missionary or mission or other Sabbath school purposes, to make, sign and acknowledge and file in the office of the Secretary of State, and also in the office of the clerk of the county in which the business of such society is to be conducted, certificates in writing, stating the name by which the society shall be known, the particular…
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