Legal Opinion

Masonic Temple Ass'n v. Channell

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 2, 1890PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Hennepin county, refusing a new trial after a trial by Lochren, J., and judgment for $500 and interest ordered for plaintiff.

1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.

The action is upon defendant’s subscription to the capital stock of the plaintiff. Upon a trial without a jury, the court below ordered judgment for the plaintiff, and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial he appeals.

The appellant makes the points that the plaintiff never accepted his subscription, it having been made before the corporation was organized ; that one of the calls or assessments upon the subscribers was not properly made, because it was ordered at a meeting of the directors at which there was not a quorum present; and that appellant had not due notice of four…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Hager v. ClevelandCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1872
  2. Corwith v. CulverIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
  3. Garling v. BaechtelCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1875
  4. Clark v. Monongahela Navigation Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1840
  5. Schloss & Kahn v. Montgomery Trade Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1888

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Samuel H. Chute Co. v. LattaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
  2. Eastern Products Corporations v. Tennessee Coal, Iron & R.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1924
  3. Morgan v. LandstreetCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1909
  4. Enterprise Sheet Metal Works v. SchendelMontana Supreme Court · 1922
  5. Macfarland v. West Side Improvement Ass'nNebraska Supreme Court · 1898

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