Coulter v. Robertson
Court of Appeals of Mississippi
This action was founded on the promissory note of the testator of the plaintiffs in error, executed to, and held by, the Commercial Bank at Natchez.
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This action was founded on the promissory note of the testator of the plaintiffs in error, executed to, and held by, the Commercial Bank at Natchez. Prior to the institution of the suit, an information in the nature of a quo warranto, had been instituted against the bank, under which its charter had been declared forfeited, and the corporation was judicially dissolved, in pursuance of an act of the legislature of Mississippi, passed in July, 1843. Under the provisions of the eighth section of that act, William Robertson was appointed trustee for the purposes set forth in said section, which…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Smith.
A judgment of forfeiture was- pronouiicéd against the late Commercial Bank of Natchez upon an information in the nature of a quo warranto, institutéd under the provisions of the statute regulating the mode of proceeding against incorporated banks for a violation of their charters.
William Robértson was appointed trustee, and as such brought suit against the plaintiffs in error, on a note made by their testator, which was the property of the dissolved corporation, at the time when the judgment of forfeiture was rendered.
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